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Galeandra Lindl.

Hooded orchids (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae

Characteristics

Herbs, terrestrial [epiphytic], cespitose. Stems reedlike or more often pseudobulbs. Leaves 1–2 [several], not articulate [articulate], plicate, absent [present] at flowering. Inflorescences terminal, racemes, erect [lightly arching to pendent]; floral bracts lanceolate, scarious. Flowers resupinate, showy; sepals and petals membranaceous; lip sessile, simple [obscurely 2–3-lobate], base with conspicuous spur adnate to column foot, margins tomentose [glabrous]; spur shortly conic [sometimes apically recurved, funnel-shaped]; disc basally 2[–4]-keeled; column lightly arcuate, shallowly winged, semiterete, produced into conspicuous foot; anther terminal, incumbent, operculate, imperfectly 2-locular; pollinia 2, yellow, nearly spheric, cartilaginous. Fruits capsules.
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Terrestrial or epiphytic herbs. Stems leafy, becoming thickened and pseudobulbose. Leaves distichous, plicate. Sepals free, equal, spreading. Petals similar to the sepals, sometimes broader. Lip entire or bilobed, adnate to the base of the column, with a conspicuous spur at the base; lateral lobes usually erect and enfolded over the column. Column erect, short; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, imperfectly 2-celled; pollinia 4, ceraceous, often in pairs.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Galeandra world distribution map, present in Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Haiti, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Paraguay, Suriname, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30031686-2
WFO ID wfo-4000015207
COL ID 8VXRB
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INPN ID 731016
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Synonyms

Tupacamaria Galeandra Corydandra

Lower taxons

Galeandra bicarinata Galeandra santarena Galeandra arundinis Galeandra schunkii Galeandra badia Galeandra baueri Galeandra curvifolia Galeandra devoniana Galeandra dives Galeandra duidensis Galeandra graminoides Galeandra greenwoodiana Galeandra harveyana Galeandra huebneri Galeandra lacustris Galeandra leptoceras Galeandra levyae Galeandra macroplectra Galeandra magnicolumna Galeandra minax Galeandra montana Galeandra paraguayensis Galeandra beyrichii Galeandra camptoceras Galeandra carnevaliana Galeandra claesii Galeandra stangeana Galeandra styllomisantha Galeandra xerophila Galeandra andamanensis Galeandra batemanii Galeandra biloba Galeandra junceaoides Galeandra blanchetii Galeandra blattiodora Galeandra schmidtii Galeandra pilosocolumna Galeandra lagoensis Galeandra hysterantha Galeandra multifoliata Galeandra nivalis
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