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|accepted_name=Calydorea
|accepted_authority=Herbert
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|place=29(misc.): 85. 1843
|year=1843
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cardiostigma
|authority=Baker
|rank=genus
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|name=Catila
|authority=Ravenna
|rank=genus
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|name=Salpingostylis
|authority=Small
|rank=genus
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|name=Sphenostigma
|authority=Baker
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Iridaceae;Calydorea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Iridaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Calydorea]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek caly, sheathed or covered, and dory, spear, most likely alluding to the spear-shaped buds enclosed until anthesis within the rhipidial spathes
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 17, 349, 401
|treatment_page=page 400
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form;bulb architecture;bulb shape"><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, from tunicate, ovoid bulbs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="tunic coloration;tunic condition or texture;tunic fragility;tunic texture">tunic brown, dry, brittle, papery.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem architecture;stem architecture"><b>Stems </b>simple or branched.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf quantity;basal leaf size"><b>Leaves </b>few, basal larger;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="blade shape or vernation">blade pleated, linearlanceolate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>rhipidiate, few-flowered;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="spathe coloration;spathe size;spathe position;spathe height or length or size;apex coloration;apex shape;apex condition or texture">spathes green, unequal, outer shorter than inner, apex usually brown, acute, dry.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower duration;flower orientation;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>short-lived, erect, actinomorphic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="tepal orientation;tepal fusion;tepal coloration;tepal variability">tepals spreading from base, distinct, blue to mauve, ± equal [outer whorl considerably larger than inner];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stamen fusion;filament fusion">stamens distinct or filaments variously connate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="anther fusion">anthers sometimes connate basally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="style position;style orientation;style size;style architecture">style eccentric [central] when flower fully open, recurving, slender, branching between middle of filaments and anther apices [branching distal to anthers or 3-lobed apically];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="branch orientation;branch architecture or shape;branch height or length or size;branch structure in adjective form">branches [lobes] ascending, undivided, short, stigmatic apically.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="capsule shape;capsule pubescence or texture;apex architecture or shape"><b>Capsules </b>ovoid to oblong, cartilaginous, apex truncate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="seed quantity;seed shape"><b>Seeds </b>many, prismatic;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="">seed-coat brown.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="seed-coat coloration;x chromosome quantity">x = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America (incl. Mexico);South America
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The generic position of the single North American species of Calydorea has long been unsettled. Its segregation in the monotypic Salpingostylis (J. K. Small 1931b) is unsatisfactory. This Florida species differs little from those of Mexico, which in turn show strong similarities with others in South America. Some of these species were included by J. G. Baker (1892) in Sphenostigma, but the type of that genus was shown to be a species of Gelasine by P. Ravenna (1977), who then placed the Floridian and Mexican species that had been referred to Sphenostigma in Cardiostigma. P. Goldblatt and J. E. Henrich (1991) preferred to include all these species in a slightly expanded Calydorea, other species of which have the style dividing near the anther bases and the style branches somewhat longer than in the Mexican and Floridian species.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Calydorea
|author=Peter Goldblatt
|authority=Herbert
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Cardiostigma;Catila;Salpingostylis;Sphenostigma
|basionyms=
|family=Iridaceae
|distribution=North America (incl. Mexico);South America
|reference=None
|publication title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|publication year=1843
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V26/V26_823.xml
|genus=Calydorea
|anther fusion=connate
|apex architecture or shape=truncate
|apex coloration=brown
|apex condition or texture=dry
|apex shape=acute
|basal leaf size=larger
|blade shape or vernation=pleated
|branch architecture or shape=undivided
|branch height or length or size=short
|branch orientation=ascending
|branch structure in adjective form=stigmatic
|bulb architecture=tunicate
|bulb shape=ovoid
|capsule pubescence or texture=cartilaginous
|capsule shape=ovoid;oblong
|filament fusion=connate
|flower architecture=actinomorphic
|flower duration=short-lived
|flower orientation=erect
|inflorescence architecture=few-flowered;rhipidiate
|leaf quantity=few
|seed quantity=many
|seed shape=prismatic
|seed-coat coloration=brown
|spathe coloration=green
|spathe height or length or size=outer shorter
|spathe position=outer
|spathe size=unequal
|stamen fusion=distinct
|stem architecture=branched;simple
|style architecture=branching
|style orientation=recurving
|style position=eccentric
|style size=slender
|tepal coloration=blue;mauve
|tepal fusion=distinct
|tepal orientation=spreading
|tepal variability=equal
|tunic coloration=brown
|tunic condition or texture=dry
|tunic fragility=brittle
|tunic texture=papery
|whole_organism duration=perennial
|whole_organism growth form=herb
|x chromosome quantity=7
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