OBSERVATIONS ON REPRODUCTION IN TRIPHORA-TRIANTHOPHORA (ORCHIDACEAE)

Authors
WILLIAMS SA
Citation
Sa. Williams, OBSERVATIONS ON REPRODUCTION IN TRIPHORA-TRIANTHOPHORA (ORCHIDACEAE), Rhodora, 96(885), 1994, pp. 30-43
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Rhodora → ACNP
ISSN journal
00354902
Volume
96
Issue
885
Year of publication
1994
Pages
30 - 43
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-4902(1994)96:885<30:OORIT(>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
A small population of the orchid Triphora trianthophora in western Mas sachusetts was investigated over a six-year period (1988 through 1993) . Observations on the flowering habits and seed capsule production are described, as well as vegetative reproduction by means of tuberoids. Triphora produces an abundance of short-lived flowers yet very few cap sules are initiated. The majority of Triphora's existence is spent und erground reproducing asexually by means of new tuberoids.