{{Short description|Genus of orchids}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bletia patula.jpg | image_caption = 1836 illustration<br>Curtis's botanical magazine | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Bletia | authority = Ruiz & Pav. | type_species = ''Bletia catenulata'' | type_species_authority = Ruiz & Pav.<ref>lectotype designated by Britton et Millspaugh, Bahama Flora 96 (1920)</ref> | synonyms_ref = <ref name="WCSP"/> | synonyms = * ''Gyas'' <small>Salisb.</small> * ''Bletiana'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Thiebautia'' <small>Colla</small> * ''Crybe'' <small>Lindl.</small> * ''Anthogyas'' <small>Raf.</small> * ''Regnellia'' <small>Barb.Rodr.</small> }}
'''''Bletia''''' is a genus of about 30 species of orchids (family Orchidaceae), almost all of which are terrestrial; some are occasionally lithophytic or epiphytic.<ref>Bailey, L.H. & E.Z. Bailey. 1976. Hortus Third i–xiv, 1–1290. MacMillan, New York.</ref><ref>Forzza, R. C. 2010. Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil {{cite web|url=http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-08-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906080403/http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/ |archivedate=2015-09-06 }}. Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro</ref> It is named after Spanish botanist and pharmacist Don Luis Blet. The genus is widespread across Florida, Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America as far south as Argentina.<ref name="WCSP">[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=22456 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref><ref>McLeish, I., N. R. Pearce & B. R. Adams. 1995. Native Orchids of Belize. 1–278.</ref><ref>[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Genus/Bletia.png Biota of North America Program, genus ''Bletia'']</ref><ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=104099 Flora of North America v 26 p 602, genus ''Bletia'']</ref>
==List of species== Accepted species include:<ref name=POWO>{{cite web |url= https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30019970-2 |title= Bletia Ruiz & Pav. |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=n.d. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=The Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=January 4, 2025}}</ref><ref name="WCSP"/>
{{Div col}} * ''Bletia adenocarpa'' <small>Rchb.f.</small> * ''Bletia altilamellata'' <small>Garay</small> * ''Bletia amabilis'' <small>C.Schweinf.</small> * ''Bletia antillana'' <small>M.A.Diaz & Sosa</small> * ''Bletia arizonica'' <small>(S.Watson) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia brevicaulis'' <small>(L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia campanulata'' <small>Lex.</small> * ''Bletia candida'' <small>Kraenzl.</small> * ''Bletia carabiaiana'' <small>L.O.Williams</small> * ''Bletia catenulata'' <small>Ruiz & Pav.</small> * ''Bletia coccinea'' <small>Lex.</small> * ''Bletia colemanii'' <small>(Catling) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia concolor'' <small>Dressler</small> * ''Bletia corallicola'' <small>(Small) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia × ekmanii'' <small>Serguera & Sánchez Los.</small> * ''Bletia ensifolia'' <small>L.O.Williams</small> * ''Bletia fallax'' <small>(M.I.Rodr. & R.González) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia florida'' <small>(Salisb.) R.Br.</small> * ''Bletia gracilis'' <small>Lodd.</small> * ''Bletia greenmaniana'' <small>L.O.Williams</small> * ''Bletia greenwoodiana'' <small>Sosa</small> * ''Bletia hamiltoniana'' <small>(Ackerman & Whitten) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia hoffmannii'' <small>(M.A.Díaz & Llamacho) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia lilacina'' <small>A.Rich. & Galeotti</small> * ''Bletia macristhmochila'' <small>Greenm. </small> * ''Bletia meridana'' <small> (Rchb.f.)Garay & Dunst. </small> * ''Bletia mexicana'' <small>(Greenm.)Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia mixtecana'' <small>Salazar & C.Chávez</small> * ''Bletia neglecta'' <small>Sosa</small> * ''Bletia nelsonii'' <small>Ames</small> * ''Bletia netzeri'' <small>Senghas</small> * ''Bletia nitida'' <small>(L.O.Williams) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia parkinsonii'' <small>Hook.</small> * ''Bletia parva'' <small>Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia patula'' <small>Hook.</small> * ''Bletia punctata'' <small>Lex.</small> * ''Bletia purpurata'' <small>A.Rich. & Galeotti</small> * ''Bletia purpurea'' <small>(Lam.) DC.</small> * ''Bletia reflexa'' <small>Lindl.</small> * ''Bletia revoluta'' <small>(Correll) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia riparia'' <small>Sosa & Palestina</small> * ''Bletia roezlii'' <small>Rchb.f.</small> * ''Bletia santosii'' <small>H.Ávila, J.G.González & Art.Castro</small> * ''Bletia sarcophylla'' <small>Rchb.f.</small> * ''Bletia × similis'' <small>Dressler</small> * ''Bletia spicata'' <small>(Walter)Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia stenophylla'' <small>Schltr.</small> * ''Bletia × tamayoana'' <small>S.Rosillo ex Soltero</small> * ''Bletia tenuifolia'' <small>Ames & C.Schweinf.</small> * ''Bletia urbana'' <small>Dressler</small> * ''Bletia villae'' <small>Soto Arenas</small> * ''Bletia volubilis'' <small>M.A.Díaz</small> * ''Bletia wageneri'' <small>Rchb.f</small>. * ''Bletia warfordiana'' <small> Sosa </small> * ''Bletia warnockii'' <small>(Ames & Correll) Sosa & M.W.Chase</small> * ''Bletia wrightii'' <small>Acuña</small> {{Div col end}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{Commons-inline|2=''Bletia''}} * {{Wikispecies-inline|Bletia|''Bletia''}}
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Category:Bletia Category:Orchids of Central America Category:Orchids of North America Category:Orchids of South America Category:Epidendreae genera Category:Orchids of Florida Category:Orchids of Mexico Category:Flora of the Caribbean Category:Taxa named by José Antonio Pavón Jiménez Category:Taxa named by Hipólito Ruiz López