Herbs, epiphytic. Roots fleshy, glabrous. Stems aggregate, erect, forming ovoid-pyriform pseudobulbs. Leaves apical, sessile, articulate; blade linear-elliptic
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to reflexed, 3–10 cm × 1.5–1.7 mm. Inflorescences: spikes (1–) 2–4 (–5), ovoid, 2–8 × 2–4 mm; bracts 2–3, 1–13 cm × 1–2 mm. Spikelets: floral scales 2–3;
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cylindrical or ovoid, narrowed at both ends or somewhat enlarged toward apex. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows per locule, pale to dark-brown, ellipsoid to subglobose
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stigmas 3. Fruits drupes, ellipsoid; exocarp yellow, smooth; mesocarp fleshy; endocarp thin, fibrous, terete in cross-section. Seeds ovoid; endosperm homogeneous;
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horizontal, flat, 12–40 (–50) cm × 2–7 mm. Spikelets (25–) 35–50 (–60), ovoid, compressed, (3.5–) 5–12 (–14) × 2.5–3.5 (–4) mm; floral scales 10–32, golden
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at apex. Seed-cones cylindric-ellipsoid, 5–19 cm, blunt at apex; ovules 2 per sporophyll. Seeds drupelike, oblong to ovoid, somewhat angular, 1.5–2 cm,
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150; filaments pale-yellow to red; pistil 3-4-carpellate. Capsules ovoid to ellipsoid-lanceoloid, 25-45 × 10-16 mm (including stigma and excluding prickles)
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flattened, soft, mealy; caudicles absent; stigmas entire. Fruits capsules, ovoid to ellipsoid. Tropical and subtropical regions, North America, Mexico, West Indies
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not reflexed, sessile or nearly so; stipe terete, 0-0.2 mm; body ovoid to ellipsoid, not laterally compressed, 3.5-5 mm, glabrous, very strongly veined
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0.6–1.5 mm. Follicles ascending, 1–2-seeded, ovoid; old follicles ascending, boatshaped. Seeds ellipsoid, 0.3–0.6 × 0.1–0.3 mm, not papillate, dull, rugulose
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curved, falcate, or sigmoid, usually cylindrical to lanceoloid or ellipsoid, sometimes ovoid, usually obtusely 4-angled, (10–) 13–50 (–68) × 4–9 mm, tapering
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sheetlike; pistillodes absent. Pistillate flowers: ovary 1-locular, ovoid to broadly ellipsoid; ovules 3–10 per locule; style 1, slender-columnar; stigmas 3
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V-shaped, 12–30 cm × 1–6 mm. Inflorescences: spikes ± globose to broadly ovoid, 8–20 mm wide; rays 1–8 cm; rachis 2–5 mm, glabrous; bracts 3–8, weakly ascending
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poricidal. Seeds 40–60, blackish brown to brown [black, grayish], ovoid to ellipsoid, wings absent. x = 7. Introduced; Europe, Asia (Georgia), Asia (Turkmenistan)
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erect-ascending at anthesis, erect to deflexed in fruit, 3–20 mm. Capsules ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5–3.3 × 1.4–2.2 mm. Seeds 15–35, dark or reddish-brown, with blackish
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fleshy. Stems abbreviated rhizomes; pseudobulbs subterranean, cormlike, ovoid, covered with scales. Leaves: petiole to 15 cm; blade 3-ribbed, linearlanceolate
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of North America Association Plants 7–20 (–30) cm. Roots from spheroid to ovoid or nearly cylindric tuberoids, 10–30 × 5–15 mm. Stems purple or sometimes
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or irregularly dehiscent longitudinally, red to red-purple, spheric, ovoid, ellipsoid, oblong, or pyriform, 30–80 [–120] mm, fleshy or juicy [tough in A
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Capsules broadly ovoid to subglobose, opening by 6 revolute teeth; carpophore absent. Seeds 2–6, reddish-brown to blackish, ellipsoid to reniform, laterally
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apex of distal leaf-sheath obtuse, tooth to 0.2 (–0.5) mm. Spikelets ellipsoid to ovoid, 3–10 × 2–4 mm, apex blunt to subacute; floral scales 10–100+, 10
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