View source for Cyrtopodium

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Cyrtopodium
|accepted_authority=R. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|place=5: 216. 1813
|year=1813
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Cyrtopodiinae;Cyrtopodium
|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 Cymbidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Cyrtopodiinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cyrtopodium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kyrtos, curved swelling, and podium, foot, probably alluding to conspicuous column foot
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 495
|treatment_page=page 642
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> terrestrial or epiphytic, cespitose. <b>Stems</b> pseudobulbs, ovate-fusiform. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, distichous; blade articulate, plicate, leathery, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> from base of pseudobulbs, racemes to panicles, erect; floral bracts large, showy, margins undulate. <b>Flowers</b> resupinate, showy; sepals and petals membranaceous, margins often conspicuously undulate; lip adnate to apex of column foot, subsessile to conspicuously clawed, conspicuously 3-lobed, disc with tuberculate, cristate, or verrucose callus; column slightly arcuate, sometimes nearly club-shaped, semiterete, forming conspicuous foot; anther terminal, incumbent, operculate, imperfectly 2-locular; pollinia 2, yellow, nearly triangular, sulcate, cartilaginous, attached to short, trowel-shaped viscidium. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, pendent, pear-shaped.</span><!--

-->{{Treatment/Body
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 15–30 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
}}<!--

--><div class="treatment-key">
==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lip middle lobe margin not conspicuously verruculose-tuberculate; lateral lobes bright yellow, shorter than middle lobe; plants terrestrial.
|[[Cyrtopodium polyphyllum|Cyrtopodium polyphyllum]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Lip middle lobe margin conspicuously verruculose-tuberculate, lateral lobes spotted or solid dark orange or maroon, longer than middle lobe; epiphytic.
|[[Cyrtopodium punctatum|Cyrtopodium punctatum]]
|}
</div></div><!--

-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cyrtopodium
|author=Gustavo A. Romero-González
|authority=R. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Tropical and subtropical regions;North America;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. Aiton and W. T. Aiton, Hortus Kew.
|publication year=1813
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1319.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cymbidieae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Cyrtopodiinae
|genus=Cyrtopodium
}}<!--

-->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Orchidaceae (tribe Cymbidieae) subtribe Cyrtopodiinae]]