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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Xerorchis
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
| tribus = Xerorchideae
| genus = '''''Xerorchis'''''
| genus_authority = [[Rudolf Schlechter|Schltr.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
See text.
}}
'''Xerorchis''' (from Greek ''xeros'', dry, and ''orchis'', [[testicle]]-shaped) is a [[genus]] in the [[subfamily]] [[Epidendroideae]], which belongs to the [[Orchidaceae]] [[family]]. This is a very primitive genus consisting of terrestrial orchids.
==Habitat==
Xerorchis thrives in [[South America]].
==Abnormality==
It is unclear whether this genus should be classified in the lower or higher epidendroids.
Xerorchis has 8 [[pollinium|pollinia]], hence similar to the more advanced epidendroid genera of [[Epidendreae]] and [[Arethuseae]]. Yet its [[morphology (biology)|morphology]], with unthickened [[Plant stem|stems]] and persistent [[leaf|leaves]], is that of a [[bambusoid]] [[grass]] and makes it more similar to [[Tropidieae]] or [[Triphoreae]].
==Species==
*''[[Xerorchis amazonica]]''
*''[[Xerorchis trichorhiza]]''
[[Category:Orchid genera]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Xerorchis
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
| tribus = Xerorchideae
| genus = '''''Xerorchis'''''
| genus_authority = [[Rudolf Schlechter|Schltr.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
See text.
}}
'''Xerorchis''' (from Greek ''xeros'', dry, and ''orchis'', [[testicle]]-shaped) is a [[genus]] in the [[subfamily]] [[Epidendroideae]], which belongs to the [[Orchidaceae]] [[family]]. This is a very primitive genus consisting of terrestrial orchids.
==Habitat==
Xerorchis thrives in [[South America]].
==Abnormality==
It is unclear whether this genus should be classified in the lower or higher epidendroids.
Xerorchis has 8 [[pollinium|pollinia]], hence similar to the more advanced epidendroid genera of [[Epidendreae]] and [[Arethuseae]]. Yet its [[morphology (biology)|morphology]], with unthickened [[Plant stem|stems]] and persistent [[leaf|leaves]], is that of a [[bambusoid]] [[grass]] and makes it more similar to [[Tropidieae]] or [[Triphoreae]].
==Species==
*''[[Xerorchis amazonica]]''
*''[[Xerorchis trichorhiza]]''
[[Category:Orchid genera]]
