View source for Dendrophylax lindenii

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Dendrophylax lindenii
|accepted_authority=(Lindley) Bentham ex Rolfe
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Chron., ser.
|place=3, 4: 533. 1888
|year=1888
}}
|common_names=Ghost orchid;frog orchid;palm-polly;Linden’s angurek;white butterfly orchid
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Angraecum lindenii
|authority=Lindley
|publication_title=Gard. Chron.
|publication_place=1846: 135. 1846
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Aeranthus lindenii
|authority=(Lindley) Reichenbach f.
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polyradicion lindenii
|authority=(Lindley) Garay
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polyrrhiza lindenii
|authority=(Lindley) Cogniaux
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Vandeae;Dendrophylax;Dendrophylax lindenii
|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 Vandeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Dendrophylax]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Dendrophylax lindenii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 619
|treatment_page=page 621
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>appressed to substrate, seemingly leafless. <b>Roots</b> gray-green, fascicled, to 50 cm × 3–5 mm. <b>Stems</b> inconspicuous, obscured by roots. <b>Leaves</b> bractlike, inconspicuous, often absent. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles arcuate-ascending, 6–25 cm; bracts tubular, sheathing, 5–7 mm; racemes 1–10-flowered; floral bracts lanceolate, 4 × 3 mm, scarious. <b>Flowers</b> opening in succession, usually 1–2 at a time, nocturnally fragrant; sepals and petals spreading, white to creamy green or pale yellow-brown; dorsal sepal lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 20–21 × 5–6 mm, apex acute; lateral sepals slightly oblique, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 25–30 × 4–5.5 mm, apex obtuse to acute; petals falcate-recurved, narrowly lanceolate, 22–27 × 4–4.5 mm, apex acute to acuminate; lip white, basally concave, 3-lobed, middle lobe with subquadrangular isthmus, terminating in 2 arching, twisting, caudate lobes 45–70 mm, apiculate, lateral lobes spreading, 18–25 mm wide when spread, apex obtuse to acute; callus with narrow, denticulate keel; spur arcuate, slender, 11–17 cm; column stout, with 2 triangular wings projecting toward lip, 2–3 × 5 mm diam.; pollinia orange; pedicellate ovary slender, 30 × 1.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> 6–10 × 0.5 cm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Aug, occasionally as early as Feb.
|habitat=Epiphytic in cypress swamps, wet hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Dendrophylax lindenii
|author=
|authority=(Lindley) Bentham ex Rolfe
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Aeranthus lindenii;Polyradicion lindenii;Polyrrhiza lindenii
|basionyms=Angraecum lindenii
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Aug, occasionally as early as Feb.
|habitat=Epiphytic in cypress swamps, wet hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Chron., ser.
|publication year=1888
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vandeae
|genus=Dendrophylax
|species=Dendrophylax lindenii
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