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|accepted_name=Dendrophylax
|accepted_authority=Reichenbach f. in W. G. Walpers and K. Müller berol.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in W. G. Walpers and K. Müller berol., Ann. Bot. Syst.
|place=6: 903. 1864
|year=1864
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polyradicion
|authority=Garay
|rank=genus
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polyrrhiza
|authority=Pfitzer
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Vandeae;Dendrophylax
|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>
|etymology=Greek dendro, tree, and phylax, epiphyte or guardian, in reference to the epiphytic habit
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 494, 621
|treatment_page=page 620
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>epiphytic, monopodial. <b>Roots</b> velamentous, fleshy, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> very short. <b>Leaves</b> early deciduous, conduplicate, articulate, sessile, minute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, 1–10-flowered racemes; peduncle slender. <b>Flowers</b> resupinate, large; sepals and petals similar, spreading, distinct and free, lanceolate; lip free, 3-lobed, small to very large, lateral lobes relatively short, middle lobe entire or deeply lobed, basal spur elongate; column very short, without foot; clinandrium prominent, truncate; anthers terminal, incumbent, operculate; pollinia 2, globose, waxy, hard, attached to single or separate stipes; stigma entire; rostellum deeply notched; ovary pedicellate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, narrowly cylindric, ribbed.</span><!--

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|distribution=s Fla.;West Indies.
|discussion=<p>Species 10 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The Florida representative of <i>Dendrophylax</i> has been variously placed in Polyrrhiza Pfitzer (D. S. Correll 1950; C. A. Luer 1972) or Polyradicion Garay (L. A. Garay 1969). The type of Polyrrhiza is the Jamaican P. funalis (Swartz) Pfitzer, which is regarded as a <i>Dendrophylax</i> (W. Fawcett and A. E. Rendle 1910–1936, vol. 1; C. D. Adams 1972). Garay proposed Polyradicion to accommodate P. lindenii and another species. Recent research by M. Whitten (pers. comm.) on the molecular systematics of neotropical angraecoid taxa has shown that Polyradicion is phylogenetically embedded in <i>Dendrophylax</i>. Consequently, both Polyrrhiza and Polyradicion are best treated as synonyms of <i>Dendrophylax</i>.</p>
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name=Dendrophylax
|author=James D. Ackerman
|authority=Reichenbach f. in W. G. Walpers and K. Müller berol.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=Polyradicion;Polyrrhiza
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=s Fla.;West Indies.
|reference=None
|publication title=in W. G. Walpers and K. Müller berol., Ann. Bot. Syst.
|publication year=1864
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Vandeae
|genus=Dendrophylax
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