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|accepted_name=Platythelys
|accepted_authority=Garay
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bradea
|place=2: 196. 1977
|year=1977
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae;Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae;Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Goodyerinae;Platythelys
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subtribe</small>[[Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Goodyerinae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Platythelys]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek platy, broad, and thely(s) , woman, alluding to the broad, flat rostellum
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 497
|treatment_page=page 517
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> terrestrial. <b>Roots</b> few, from nodes, villous. <b>Stems</b> elongate, terminal shoots ascending. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, petiolate, not articulate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemes, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b> resupinate, erect to somewhat spreading, small; sepals subsimilar, distinct and free, margins entire; petals connivent with sepals; lip 2-parted, fleshy, base spurred, ventricose, hemispheric, concave, margins notched, apex ± spreading to arcuate, rough; column subsessile, cuneate; stigmas 2, approximate, horizontal; rostellum flat, elliptic to suborbiculate, broad, apex notched to 2-denticulate, generally bursting; viscidium small; anther erect; pollinia sectile, attached to short caudicles; ovary short-pedicellate. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, ellipsoid to nearly cylindric.</span><!--

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|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (1 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=garay1977a
|text=Garay, L. A. 1977. Systematics of the Physurinae (Orchidaceae) in the New World. Bradea 2: 191–204.
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name=Platythelys
|author=James D. Ackerman
|authority=Garay
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subtribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|distribution=Subtropics and tropics;North America;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=garay1977a
|publication title=Bradea
|publication year=1977
|special status=
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|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Orchidoideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Cranichideae
|subtribe=Orchidaceae (tribe Cranichideae) subtribe Goodyerinae
|genus=Platythelys
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