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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Triphora gentianoides
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Ames & Schlechter in O. Ames
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in O. Ames, Orchidaceae
|place=7: 5. 1922
|year=1922
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Limodorum gentianoides
|authority=Swartz
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=119. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Triphora cubensis
|authority=(Reichenbach f.) Ames
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Triphoreae;Triphora;Triphora gentianoides
|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 Triphoreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Triphora]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Triphora gentianoides]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 588, 592
|treatment_page=page 593
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>8–26 cm. <b>Roots</b> from cylindric tuberoids, 30–60 × 8–10 mm. <b>Stems</b> green, often tinged with brown or purplish, unbranched or rarely 2–3-branched from base. <b>Leaves</b> 3–10, ascending, usually partially sheathing stem; blade green, often tinged with brown or purple, bractlike, ovate, 1–1.8 × 0.5–1 cm, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> 3–10(–15)-flowered corymbose racemes. <b>Flowers</b> not resupinate, erect, closed to slightly gaping, pale green, sometimes tinged with brown or reddish brown; flowering successive, anthesis overlapping; dorsal sepal linear-lanceolate, 6–11 × 2–2.5 mm; lateral sepals linear-lanceolate, falcate, 6–11 × 2–2.5 mm; petals linear-lanceolate, falcate, 8–11 × 1–2 mm; lip facing stem, white to pale green, ovate to obovate, clawed, 3-lobed, 8–10 × 3–4 mm, middle lobe ovate, lateral lobes lance-ovate, margins erose to nearly lacerate; disc with 3 green, raised, denticulate crests; column yellowish white, clavate, slender, 7 mm; pollinia 2, yellow. <b>Capsules</b> erect, ellipsoid, 10–20 × 5–10 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Sandy pinelands in shade or full sun, persisting in sandy lawns, or rarely in shade of live- oak hammocks
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;se Mexico;West Indies (Cuba;Dominican Republic;Haiti);Central America (Belize;Guatemala;Honduras;Panama);South America (Ecuador;Venezuela).
|discussion=<p>The flowers are presumed to be self-fertilizing. The anther color has been reported as purple for Venezuelan material (G. C. K. Dunsterville and L. A. Garay [1959]–1976, vol. 3).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Triphora gentianoides
|author=
|authority=(Swartz) Ames & Schlechter in O. Ames
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Triphora cubensis
|basionyms=Limodorum gentianoides
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Sandy pinelands in shade or full sun, persisting in sandy lawns, or rarely in shade of live- oak hammocks
|elevation=0–10 m
|distribution=Fla.;se Mexico;West Indies (Cuba;Dominican Republic;Haiti);Central America (Belize;Guatemala;Honduras;Panama);South America (Ecuador;Venezuela).
|reference=None
|publication title=in O. Ames, Orchidaceae
|publication year=1922
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1209.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Triphoreae
|genus=Triphora
|species=Triphora gentianoides
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