Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Hexalectris revoluta Basiphyllaea corallicola Encyclia tampensis	Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi

Herbs, terrestrial, sympodial, glabrous. Roots few, velamentous, fleshy, villous. Stems subterranean tubers, rhizomes, and erect, delicate, aerial shoots. Leaves deciduous, 1–2, basal; blade articulate, conduplicate, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal, few-flowered racemes or sometimes branched, erect, scapose. Flowers resupinate; perianth not fully spreading, distinct and free; sepals lanceolate to linearlanceolate; petals linear-elliptic, oblongelliptic, or oblanceolate; lip 3-lobed, middle lobe small, obovate to subquadrangular, apex notched to retuse, lateral lobes clasping column, broad, rounded; disc lamellate; column elongate, arcuate, slender; anther terminal, operculate; pollinia 8, hard, waxy; ovary pedicellate; stigma entire. Fruits capsules, erect, ellipsoid.

Distribution

s Fla., West Indies

Discussion

Species 6 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Basiphyllaea corallicola

"broad" is not a number.