View source for Polystachya

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Polystachya
|accepted_authority=Hooker
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Exot. Fl.
|place=2: plate 103. 1824
|year=1824
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae;Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Polystachynae;Polystachya
|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 Epidendreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Polystachynae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polystachya]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek poly, many, and stachys, spike, alluding to many branchlets of the inflorescence in some species
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 495
|treatment_page=page 617
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>epiphytic, lithophytic, or terrestrial. <b>Roots</b> velamentous. <b>Stems</b> slender or pseudobulbous, clustered or distant along rhizome. <b>Leaves</b> 1–several, conduplicate, thin [fleshy], leathery. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, simple or paniculate racemes with ± secund branches; peduncle enclosed by scarious sheaths. <b>Flowers</b> few to many, mostly not resupinate, generally small; dorsal sepal free; lateral sepals adnate to column foot forming mentum; petals smaller than sepals, free; lip 3-lobed [simple], adnate to and articulate with column foot, forming part of mentum; disc usually callose, pubescent; column semiterete, short; foot distinct; stigmas confluent, transverse under rostellum, viscidium ovate to elliptic; anther terminal, incumbent, operculate; pollinia 4, globose or ellipsoid, hard, waxy, attached to single short stipe. <b>Fruits</b> capsules.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;especially rich in Africa;s Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Australia;Pacific Islands.
|discussion=<p>Species 150 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Polystachya
|author=James D. Ackerman
|authority=Hooker
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;especially rich in Africa;s Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Australia;Pacific Islands.
|reference=None
|publication title=Exot. Fl.
|publication year=1824
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1262.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Epidendreae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Polystachynae
|genus=Polystachya
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Orchidaceae (tribe Epidendreae) subtribe Polystachynae]]