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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Tropidia polystachya
|accepted_authority=(Swartz) Ames
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Orchidaceae
|place=2: 262. 1908
|year=1908
}}
|common_names=Young palm orchid
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=F
|label=Illustrated
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Serapias polystachya
|authority=Swartz
|rank=species
|publication_title=Prodr.,
|publication_place=119. 1788
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chloidia polystachya
|authority=(Swartz) Reichenbach f.
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Chloidia vernalis
|authority=Lindley
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corymbis polystachya
|authority=(Swartz) Bentham ex Fawcett
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Corymborchis polystachya
|authority=(Swartz) Kuntze
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Macrostylis vernalis
|authority=(Lindley) Reichenbach f.
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Neottia polystachya
|authority=(Swartz) Swartz
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polystachya membranacea
|authority=A. Richard
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Stenorrhynchos polystachyon
|authority=(Swartz) Sprengel
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tomotris polystachya
|authority=(Swartz) Rafinesque
|rank=species
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Tropidia eatonii
|authority=Ames
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Tropidieae;Tropidia;Tropidia polystachya
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Tropidieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tropidia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Tropidia polystachya]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 594
|treatment_page=page 596
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>to 70 cm. <b>Roots</b> several from rhizome, brown, 0.5–3 mm diam., villous. <b>Rhizomes</b> 2.5–4 mm diam. <b>Stems</b> partially concealed by bladeless tubular sheaths proximally when young, naked when older, covered by leaf sheaths distally, usually branched, terete, 31–55 cm × 2–4 mm. <b>Leaves</b> several; sheaths clasping stem, 4–4.5 cm; blade oblong-lanceolate, 6–27 × 2.4–6.7 cm, apex acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b>: peduncles 3.5–14 cm; panicles 3–48-flowered, dense, subglobular, 2.5–9 × 3–6.5 cm; floral bracts linear to lanceolate, 4–10 mm, apex acuminate to subulate. <b>Flowers</b> 8–12 mm; sepals greenish white, 5-veined; dorsal sepal concave, oblong to elliptic, 6.5–7 × 2–2.5 mm, apex acute to obtuse; lateral sepals somewhat gibbous, lanceolate-oblong, slightly falcate, 5.5–6.5 × 1.7–2 mm, apex acute; petals white, 3-veined, somewhat falcate, lanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, 5–6 × 1.5–2 mm, apex acute; lip embracing column, white with yellow spot on disc, oblong, 4.5–6 × 2 mm, constricted at middle, apex retuse, sometimes obscurely 4-lobed; disc 2-lamellate and flabellate distally; column 4–4.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ribbed, 10–14 × 3–6 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Sep–Mar.
|habitat=Moist hardwood hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Galapagos Islands).
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|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Tropidia polystachya
|authority=(Swartz) Ames
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Chloidia polystachya;Chloidia vernalis;Corymbis polystachya;Corymborchis polystachya;Macrostylis vernalis;Neottia polystachya;Polystachya membranacea;Stenorrhynchos polystachyon;Tomotris polystachya;Tropidia eatonii
|basionyms=Serapias polystachya
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Sep–Mar.
|habitat=Moist hardwood hammocks
|elevation=0–20 m
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America (Galapagos Islands).
|reference=None
|publication title=Orchidaceae
|publication year=1908
|special status=Illustrated
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1216.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Tropidieae
|genus=Tropidia
|species=Tropidia polystachya
}}<!--

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