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| name = Xerorchis<br />
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae<br />
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]<br />
| classis = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]<br />
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]<br />
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]<br />
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]<br />
| tribus = Xerorchideae<br />
| genus = '''''Xerorchis'''''<br />
| genus_authority = [[Rudolf Schlechter|Schltr.]]<br />
| subdivision_ranks = Species<br />
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'''Xerorchis''' (from Greek ''xeros'', dry, and ''orchis'', [[testicle]]-shaped) is a [[genus]] in the [[subfamily]] [[Epidendroideae]], which belongs to the [[Orchidaceae]] [[family]]. This is a very primitive genus consisting of terrestrial orchids.<br />
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==Habitat==<br />
Xerorchis thrives in [[South America]].<br />
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==Abnormality==<br />
It is unclear whether this genus should be classified in the lower or higher epidendroids.<br />
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Xerorchis has 8 [[pollinium|pollinia]], hence similar to the more advanced epidendroid genera of [[Epidendreae]] and [[Arethuseae]]. Yet its [[morphology (biology)|morphology]], with unthickened [[Plant stem|stems]] and persistent [[leaf|leaves]], is that of a [[bambusoid]] [[grass]] and makes it more similar to [[Tropidieae]] or [[Triphoreae]].<br />
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==Species==<br />
*''[[Xerorchis amazonica]]''<br />
*''[[Xerorchis trichorhiza]]''<br />
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