Stenia

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Stenia
Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Maxillarieae
Subtribe: Zygopetalinae
Genus: Stenia
Lindl.., 1837

Type Species
Stenia pallida
Lindl.., 1837
Species
See text.

Stenia is a small, genus from the orchid family (Orchidaceae)

This epiphytic plants occur in warm, humid habitats of Trinidad and tropical South America.

This genus as a rule lacks pseudobulbs and consequently produces tufted fan-like growths of fairly erect narrow, short leaves, and conforms to the sympodial method of growth.

Plants of this genus produce a short, creeping or erect, single-flowered inflorescences, growing laterally. The flowers are medium-sized, with equal petals and sepals. All members of this genus have their flowers dominated by the large, shoe-like, concave labellum (lip) with a disc-like, toothed crest. The flowers have four elongate pollinia, with the upper pollinia long and narrow

They occur at any time of the year, though slightly more concentrated during summer in cultivation.

Synonyms

  • Stenopolen Raf., (1838).
  • Dodsonia Ackerman (1979)

Species

References

  • Stern W.L., Judd W.S., Carlsward B.S. (2004). "Systematic and comparative anatomy of Maxillarieae (Orchidaceae), sans Oncidiinae". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 144 (3): 251-274. 
  • Whitten (2005). "Generic relationships of Zygopetalinae (Orchidaceae: Cymbidieae): combined molecular evidence". Lankesteriana 5 (2). 

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