vernal rosettes of subglobose leaves on threadlike petioles, and relatively few flowers. The most-advanced inflorescence and flowers are in hummingbird-pollinated
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pleiochasia; individual dichasial or pleiochasial branches unbranched or few-branched at one or more successive nodes; bracts subtending dichasia and pleiochasia
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the solitary habit is rare, often a result of poor or droughty habitat. A few can be termed annual or short-lived perennials (i.e., X. brevifolia, X. flabelliformis
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hyalodermis present or partial > 2 1 Stems with hyalodermis absent > 3 2 Alar cells few, strongly inflated, regions small, from margins at most 50% distance to costa;
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sheathing stem. Inflorescences solitary, terminal, lax to dense spikes. Flowers few-to-many, usually resupinate (not resupinate in P. nivea), sometimes showy;
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glossy, margins entire, toothed, fringed, or erose; scales on ovary none or few, narrow or rudimentary, entire or erose, axils naked, spineless; stigma lobes
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number of species and their hybrids in only a few genera; the majority of orchids are not commonly cultivated. Few orchids are economically important outside
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(sometimes appearing lateral) panicles of few-to-many heads, sympodial; bracteoles absent proximal to perianth. Flowers in few-flowered heads. Capsules 3-locular
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clumps. Thallose protonematal flaps persistent and usually present. Stems few, very short, less than 0.05 cm; flagelliform shoots may occur at the base
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microspores. Gametophytes remaining within spores; microgametophytes of only a few cells; megagametophytes protruding from spores, each bearing 1 simple archegonium
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often occur along the distal margins of the lemmas. When present, they may be few and irregularly scattered, with gaps between them that are either wider than
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or connected to spine cluster by very broad groove, woolly; areolar glands few or absent; cortex and pith highly mucilaginous. Spines 2–17 (–29); radial
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Archegoniate plants composed of a perichaetium of a few, mainly nonchlorophyllose ecostate leaves that enclose very few archegonia. Antheridial plants reduced to
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Etymology: Greek tri, 3-fold, and phoros, bearing, possibly in reference to the few-flowered inflorescence or the 3 crests on the lip of the type species Treatment
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characteristics alone. Although some workers have aggregated species into a few large genera (e.g., J. T. Mickel 1979b), most tend to recognize smaller segregate
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is unbarbed except at the apex, which terminates with four (or sometimes fewer) retrorse barbs. Complex grappling-hook trichomes have a tapered stalk that
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cylindric, smooth or distinctly furrowed; gymnostomous or peristomate, stomata few; peristome single, double or absent, exostome frequently reduced to small
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Stems erect, yellowish green or brown to purple, glabrous; sheathing bracts few, reduced. Rhizomes branching, coralloid; scales minute. Inflorescences laxly
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usually borne digitately, occasionally in 2-several whorls, sometimes with a few isolated branches below the primary whorl (s), all branches usually exceeding
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stoloniferous; secondary stems ascending, irregularly branched, branches few-to-many, curved or in whorls; paraphyllia absent; radiculose on primary-stems
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