Triphora Nutt 1818
Creators: name: Figueroa, Dante S.
name: Zabalgoitia, Alejandro
name: Velázquez-Ríos, Perla
name: Muñiz-Castro, Miguel Á.
name: Jiménez-Machorro, Rolando
name: Guerrero-Hernández, Ricardo
name: Huerta-Galván, Oassis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Orchidaceae
Triphora

description: Key to the determination of species in the genus Triphora in Mexico   
1. Leaves with extended lamina.............................................................................................................................................................2  
1’. Leaves scale-like................................................................................................................................................................................5  
 2. Lip slightly three-lobed, presence of scattered subulate fleshy projections in the central lobe............................................ T. debilis   
2’. Lip conspicuously three-lobed, presence of fleshy projections of different shapes arranged in lines along the lip..........................3  
 3. Flowers not resupinate, central lobe of lip rectangular............................................................................................... T. yucatanensis   
3’. Flowers resupinate, central lobe of lip suborbicular to deltoid or obovate........................................................................................4  
 4. Central lobe of the lip with purple spots.......................................................................................................................... T. mexicana   
 4’. Central lobe of the lip without purple spots............................................................................................................. T. trianthophoros   
 5. Lip with five lines with fleshy projections.................................................................................................................... T. hassleriana   
5’. Lip with three lines with fleshy projections.......................................................................................................................................6  
 6. Lateral lobes of the lip with obtuse apex, union with central lobe not constricted............................................................. T. wagneri   
6’. Lateral lobes of the lip with acute apex, union with central lobe constricted....................................................................................7  
 7. Solitary plants, flowers resupinate, margin of lateral lobes of lip entire.......................................................................... T. gallegosii   
 7’. Grouped plants, flowers not resupinate, margin of lateral lobes of lip erose to lacerate............................................ T. gentianoides
description: Published as part of Figueroa, Dante S., Zabalgoitia, Alejandro, Velázquez-Ríos, Perla, Muñiz-Castro, Miguel Á., Jiménez-Machorro, Rolando, Guerrero-Hernández, Ricardo & Huerta-Galván, Oassis, 2023, A new species of Triphora (Orchidaceae: Triphoreae, Triphorinae) from Mexico, pp. 89-99 in Phytotaxa 599 (2) on page 96, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.599.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/8008945