View source for Bletia purpurea

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|accepted_name=Bletia purpurea
|accepted_authority=(Lamarck) de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève
|place=9: 97, 100. 1841
|year=1841
}}
|common_names=Pine-pink;purple bletia;sharp-petaled bletia
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Limodorum purpureum
|authority=Lamarck
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bletia acutipetala
|authority=Hooker
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bletia havanensis
|authority=Lindley
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Bletia verecunda
|authority=(Salisbury) R. Brown
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Cymbidium verecundum
|authority=(Salisbury) Swartz
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Gyas verecunda
|authority=(Salisbury) Salisbury
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Limodorum trifidum
|authority=Michaux
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Limodorum verecundum
|authority=Salisbury
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Thiebautia nervosa
|authority=Colla
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Arethuseae;Orchidaceae (tribe Arethuseae) subtribe Bletiinae;Bletia;Bletia purpurea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Arethuseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Arethuseae) subtribe Bletiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bletia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Bletia purpurea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 601
|treatment_page=page 602
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 180 cm. <b>Roots</b> numerous, 1–1.5 mm diam. <b>Stems</b>: pseudobulbs ovoid, 2–4 cm diam. <b>Leaves</b>: blade linear to narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 20–100 × 1–5 cm, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> 25–170 cm; floral bracts ovate-triangular to ovate-lanceolate, 2–9 mm, apex acute to acuminate. <b>Flowers</b> 3–80, mostly pink, rosy purple, or deep purple, rarely almost white; sepals spreading; dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 15–26 × 5–9 mm, apex subobtuse to acute; lateral sepals obliquely ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong, 12–20 × 5–8 mm, apex acute to acuminate; petals erect, forming hood over column, oblong-ovate to elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 12–21 × 7–11 mm, apex obtuse to acute; lip adnate to column foot, purple-veined with dark margin especially distally, cordate to ovate, 3-lobed, 10–18 × 8–14 mm, middle lobe recurved, suborbiculate, truncate to deeply emarginate, margins undulate-crenulate, lateral lobes incurved, base rounded, apex triangular-obtuse; disc lamellae yellow, 5–7; column white or greenish, clavate, 8–12 mm; column foot present; pedicellate ovary slender, 9–18 mm. <b>Capsules</b> erect to suberect, 2–4.5 cm × 8–10 mm. <b>2n</b> = 60 (as B. verecunda from Mexico).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Dec–May, sporadically all year.
|habitat=Pinelands and hammocks, in humus over limestone, or in swamps on logs, stumps, or base of cypress trees above high water level
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Bletia purpurea
|author=
|authority=(Lamarck) de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Bletia acutipetala;Bletia havanensis;Bletia verecunda;Cymbidium verecundum;Gyas verecunda;Limodorum trifidum;Limodorum verecundum;Thiebautia nervosa
|basionyms=Limodorum purpureum
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Dec–May, sporadically all year.
|habitat=Pinelands and hammocks, in humus over limestone, or in swamps on logs, stumps, or base of cypress trees above high water level
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève
|publication year=1841
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1229.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Arethuseae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Arethuseae) subtribe Bletiinae
|genus=Bletia
|species=Bletia purpurea
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