Pogonia
(pronounced: pog-GOH-nee-ah)
Classification
subtribe Pogoniinae, of unknown affinity. Historically Pogonia was treated as a broadly defined genus that included species now placed in Cleistes, Isotria and Triphora.
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Overview
Terrestrials with slender, fibrous roots. Leaves solitary halfway up the plant. Inflorescences elongate, terminal, scapose, few-flowered racemes. Flowers pink. Sepals and petals free, spreading, subsimilar, the petals held subparallel to the column. Lip unlobed, bearded. Column without a foot, elongate, slightly bent upwards at the middle, without a rostellum, the stigma three-lobed; pollinia 2, mealy, with simple pollen grains.
Distribution
A circumboreal genus of two species.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow Pogonia in shallow pans of rich terrestrial soil mixture or in live sphagnum moss. Provide full light, intermediate to cool-intermediate temperatures, and steady watering throughout the year. The pots should be over-wintered in a cold frame, an alpine greenhouse, or by plunging them into a garden bed.
Literature
Thien, L. B. and B. G. Marcks 1972. The floral biology of Arethusa bulbosa, Calopogon tuberosus and Pogonia ophioglossoides (Orchidaceae). Canad. J. Bot. 23:19-25.
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