Inflorescences

Inflorescences
The inflorescence in most orchids is a raceme.

In some general this is reduced to a single terminal flower, and in others is more highly branched, producing a racemose panicle.

The inflorescence may be terminal on the stem or pseudobulb, or lateral; in the latter case, the inflorescence can rose in a leaf-scar axil or a leaf scar on the pseudobulb or stem, or from the rhizome at the base of the pseudobulb.

In a few general in which the stems bear only a single leaf, the racemes are considered here to be terminal even though they might be interpreted as axillary to the leaf.
Inflorescences