Campylocentrum

Bentham

J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 337. 1881.

Etymology: Greek kampylos, crooked, and kentros, spur, alluding to the floral lip with a long, slender, sharply curved spur
Basionym: Todaroa A. Richard & Galeotti Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 28. 1845,
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 26. Treatment on page 619. Mentioned on page 494, 621, 622.
 TaxonIllustrator 
FNA26 Plate 102.jpegBulbophyllum pachyrachis
Campylocentrum pachyrrhizum
Dendrophylax lindenii
Harrisella porrecta
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi
Barbara Alongi

Herbs, epiphytic, monopodial. Roots velamentous, glabrous. Stems rhizomatous, very reduced [elongate]. Leaves early deciduous (“leafless species”), articulate, minute [persistent, distichous, leathery]. Inflorescences axillary, spikes [racemes], often secund. Flowers more than 12, distichous, resupinate [not resupinate], small to minute; sepals and petals connivent with spreading apices, distinct; lip distinct and free, basally spurred, margins entire or lobed; column very short; clinandrium prominent, truncate; anther terminal, operculate; pollinia 2, globose, waxy, hard, attached to 1 or 2 filiform stipes; stigma entire; rostellum deeply notched; ovary sessile [pedicellate]. Fruits capsules.

Distribution

North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, tropical South America

Discussion

Species 40–45 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

... more about "Campylocentrum"
self-pollination +
James D. Ackerman +
Bentham +
Todaroa +
indehiscent +
not +  and articulate +
conduplicate +  and plicate +
flattened +, triangular +  and cylindric +
North America +, Mexico +, West Indies +, Central America +  and tropical South America +
Greek kampylos, crooked, and kentros, spur, alluding to the floral lip with a long, slender, sharply curved spur +
3-merous +, sessile +  and pedicellate +
small +  and minute +
duplicate +, convolute +, whorled +, opposite +, distichous +  and alternate +
deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
minute +
free +  and distinct +
larger +
lobed +  and entire +
differing in form and color +
1-many-flowered +  and cymose +
pendent +  and erect +
distinct +
hard +  and ceraceous +
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. +
aerial +  and subterranean +
minute +
distinct +
foliaceous +
not +  and alike +
rhizomatous +
pendent +  and erect +
proliferous +
reduced +
concave +  and convex +
Campylocentrum +
Orchidaceae tribe Vandeae +
annual +  and perennial +
saprophytic +, photosynthetic +  and mycotrophic +