Characteristics
Monocots
Tropidia polystachya (Sw.)Ames
YOUNG PALM ORCHID
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Native Endangered-State
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Classification
ASPARAGALES
Tropidia polystachya (Sw.)Ames - YOUNG PALM ORCHID
Citation
TROPIDIA POLYSTACHYA (Swartz) Ames, Orchidac. 2: 262. 1908.
Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
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Species Distribution Map

Based on vouchered plant specimens from wild populations. Cultivated occurrences are not mapped. Click on a county to display its name.

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Synonyms
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Type
Chloidia polystachya
Chloidia polystachya (Swartz) Reichenbach f., Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 644. 1863.
BASIONYM: Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Chloidia vernalis
Chloidia vernalis Lindley, Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 484. 1840, nom. illegit.
BASIONYM: Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Corymborkis polystachya
Corymborkis polystachya (Swartz) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 658. 1891.
BASIONYM: Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Macrostylis vernalis
Macrostylis vernalis Reichenbach f., Bonplandia 2: 11. 1854, nom. illegit.
BASIONYM: Chloidia vernalis Lindley 1840, nom. illegit.; Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Neottia polystachya
Neottia polystachya (Swartz) Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occid. 3: 1415. 1799.
BASIONYM: Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Polystachya membranacea
Polystachya membranacea A. Richard, in Sagra, Hist. Fis. Cuba 11: 248. 1850.
 
 
Serapias polystachya
Serapias polystachya Swartz, Prodr. 119. 1788.
 
 
Stenorrhynchos polystachyon
Stenorrhynchos polystachyon Sprengel, Syst. Veg. 3: 710. 1826, nom. illegit.
BASIONYM: Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Tomotris polystachya
Tomotris polystachya (Swartz) Rafinesque, Fl. Tellur. 2: 89. 1837 ("1836").
BASIONYM: Serapias polystachya Swartz 1788.
 
Tropidia eatonii
Tropidia eatonii Ames, Contr. Ames Bot. Lab. 1: 14, pl. 5. 1904.
 
TYPE: FLORIDA: Miami-Dade Co.: Brickell Hammock, near the Punch-Bowl, 23-26 Dec 1903, Eaton s.n. (holotype: AMES; isotype: NY, USF).
Specimens and Distribution

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