Isochilus
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Isochilus is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae) with 7 species. They are lowland epiphytes mainly found in Central America, from Cuba and Mexico to Argentina.
Characteristics of this genus include slender canelike stems with narrow distichous flat leaves and small sessile tube flowers carried at the tip of the cane.
Read about Isochilus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Isochilus (Greek, equal lip). Orchidaceae. A group of tufted orchids, little cultivated. Plants epiphytic, with tall, slender, leafy sts., without pseudobulbs, bearing a few small fls. at the summit: sepals erect, free, keeled; petals similar but plane; labellum like the petals and united with them to the base of the column, somewhat sigmoid below the middle; column erect, long, without wings; pollinia 4.—About 5 species, Trop. Amer.
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Species
- Isochilus alatus
- Isochilus amparoanus
- Isochilus aurantiacus
- Isochilus bracteatus
- Isochilus brasiliensis
- Isochilus carnosiflorus
- Isochilus cernuus
- Isochilus chiriquensis
- Isochilus crassiflorus
- Isochilus dubius
- Isochilus elegans
- Isochilus fusiformis
- Isochilus globosus
- Isochilus graminifolius
- Isochilus graminoides
- Isochilus grandiflorum
- Isochilus grandiflorus
- Isochilus lancifolius
- Isochilus langlassei
- Isochilus latibracteatus
- Isochilus leucanthus
- Isochilus linearis
- Isochilus linifolius
- Isochilus lividus
- Isochilus major
- Isochilus pauciflorus
- Isochilus peruvianus
- Isochilus pitalensis
- Isochilus prolifer
- Isochilus proliferum
- Isochilus ramosus
- Isochilus smithii
- Isochilus teretifolius
- Isochilus unilateralis
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
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