Psychilis
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Genus Description - Sympodial, epiphytic or epilithic herbs; roots velamentous; stems erect or ascending, pseudobulbous, composed of 3-5 subequal internodes, cylindrical, fusiform or pyriform from a short, stout rhizome. Leaves articulate, conduplicate, coriaceous to rigid, margin entire, crenate to erose-denticulate. Flowers resupinate, in short compact racemes on long, terminal, erect peduncles enclosed by scarious imbricate sheaths; sepals and petals free, spreading or reflexed; labellum clawed, basally adnate to column, trilobed, lateral lobes basally adnate to column, middle lobe variously callose, basal disk with a canaliculate callus; column cylindrical; anther terminal, operculate, incumbent, 2-celled; pollinia 4, equal, laterally compressed, hard, waxy, connected by caudicles; stigmas confluent, entire, rostellum transverse. Fruit capsular, ovoid to ellipsoidal.