View source for Cleistes ← Cleistes You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Cleistes |accepted_authority=Richard ex Lindley |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl., |place=409. 1840 |year=1840 }} |common_names=Spreading pogonia |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae;Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae;Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae;Cleistes |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cleistes]]</div></div> |etymology=Greek kleistos, closed, alluding to lip and petals that diverge only near apex, forming tube for most of their length, the flower thus appearing closed |volume=Volume 26 |mention_page=page 492, 498, 511 |treatment_page=page 510 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> terrestrial. <b>Roots</b> 1–2 mm wide, sometimes with wider nodular tuberoids, frequently rather brittle. <b>Leaves</b> 1–3 on vegetative plants, 1(–2) centrally on flowering stems, sessile; blade oblong-lanceolate or elliptic-oblong. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal,1–3-flowered; floral bracts leaflike. <b>Flowers</b> resupinate, erect, sessile; sepals olive-green, brown, or maroon, linear-lanceolate, apex acuminate; petals rose-pink to white, spatulate or oblanceolate, usually forming tube with lip; lip rose-pink to white, with rose or purple veins, oblanceolate, 3-lobed, middle lobe medially winged or tuberculate, central keel grooved from base to 3/4 its length; column free, white, apex lacerate, truncate; anther terminal, hinged; pollinia 2, without viscidium, soft, mealy; pollen grains in tetrads. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, erect, cylindric.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;mostly South America;2 in Central America. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 25 (2 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>Authors of some neotropical floras have questioned the separation of <i>Cleistes</i> from <i>Pogonia</i>; most recent North American authors have followed O. Ames (1905–1922) in recognizing <i>Cleistes</i>, and we prefer to do the same until a detailed study suggests otherwise. The two North American species can reproduce asexually by root shoots.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=ames1905a |text=Ames, O. 1905–1922. Orchidaceae: Illustrations and Studies of the Family Orchidaceae Issuing from the Ames Botanical Laboratory…. 7 vols. Boston and New York. Vol. 7. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=catling1992a |text=Catling, P. M. and K. B. Gregg. 1992. Systematics of the genus Cleistes in North America. Lindleyana 7: 57–73. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=fernald1946b |text=Fernald, M. L. 1946b. Some orchids of the Manual range. Rhodora 48: 161–162, 184–197, plates 1045–1048. }} }}<!-- --><div class="treatment-key"> ==Key== <div class="treatment-key-group"> {| class="wikitable fna-keytable" |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Column 13–19 mm; lip 21–33(–38) mm. |[[Cleistes bifaria|Cleistes bifaria]] |-id=key-0-1 |1 |Column 21–25(–29) mm; lip (26–)34–55 mm. |[[Cleistes divaricata|Cleistes divaricata]] |} </div></div><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Cleistes |author=Katharine B. Gregg;Paul M. Catling |authority=Richard ex Lindley |rank=genus |parent rank=subtribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Orchidaceae |distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;mostly South America;2 in Central America. |reference=ames1905a;catling1992a;fernald1946b |publication title=Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl., |publication year=1840 |special status= |source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1040.xml |subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Vanilloideae |tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vanilleae |subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae |genus=Cleistes }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Orchidaceae (tribe Vanilleae) subtribe Pogoniinae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Orchidaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Template:Treatment/Reference (view source) Return to Cleistes.