''Epidendrum'' subg. ''Amphiglottium''
(Salisb.
Richard Anthony Salisbury, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born Richard Anthony Markham; 2 May 1761 – 23 March 1829) was a British botanist. While he carried out valuable work in horticultural and botanical sciences, several bitter disputes ...
) Lindl.
John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.
Early years
Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley w ...
1841 is a subgenus of reed-stemmed ''
Epidendrums'', distinguished by an apical
inflorescence
An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...
with the
peduncle covered from its base with close imbricating sheaths and by a
lip that is adnate to the
column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. ...
to its apex.
Reichenbach published three sections in this subgenus:
[ Reichenbach, H. G. "ORCHIDES" in Müller, C., Ed. ''Walpers Annales Botanices Systematicae Tomus VI'' pp. 373-397. Berlin. 1861.]
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''E''. sect. ''Polycladia'' with truly
paniculate
A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...
inflorescences
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''E''. sect. ''Holochila'' with
racemose inflorescences and an undivided
lip
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''E''. sect. ''Schistochila'' with
racemose inflorescences and a lobate
lip
References
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Orchid subgenera