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|accepted_name=Tropidia
|accepted_authority=Lindley
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|place=19: text for plate 1618. 1833
|year=1833
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tomotris
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Tropidieae;Tropidia
|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 Tropidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tropidia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek tropideion, keel, referring to the boat-shaped floral lip of many species
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 496
|treatment_page=page 595
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> terrestrial, cespitose, erect. <b>Roots</b> branched. <b>Rhizomes</b> short, rigid. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched or simple, reedlike, slender, hard. <b>Leaves</b> few, cauline; sheaths not articulate; blade convolute, plicate, thin. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or occasionally from axils of distal leaves, few- to many-flowered panicles [racemes, rarely glomerate], pedunculate [sessile]. <b>Flowers</b> resupinate, small; sepals subequal; lateral sepals distinct [connate at base], forming small mentum; petals similar to sepals, slightly falcate, shorter than sepals; lip sessile, base saccate; column short, fleshy, with short foot; anther abaxial, erect, subequal to rostellum, more than 1/2 length of column; pollinia 2, sectile; stigma entire; viscidium terminal. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, oblong, cylindric.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;w Pacific.
|discussion=<p>Species 20 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=rasmussen1977a
|text=Rasmussen, F. N. 1977. The genus Corymborkis Thou. (Orchidaceae): A taxonomic revision. Bot. Tidsskr. 71: 161–192.
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name=Tropidia
|author=James D. Ackerman
|authority=Lindley
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Tomotris
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;w Pacific.
|reference=rasmussen1977a
|publication title=Edwards’s Bot. Reg.
|publication year=1833
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Tropidieae
|genus=Tropidia
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