Plocoglottis is a genus of orchids, native to Southeast Asia and to various islands from the Andaman Islands to the Solomons.
Corybas, commonly known as helmet orchids, is a genus of about 120 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Helmet orchids are small, perennial, deciduous herbs and are nearly always terrestrial. They have a single leaf at their base and a single flower on a short stalk, the flower dominated by its large dorsal sepal and labellum. Species of Corybas are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, southern China, many Pacific islands and a few sub-Antarctic islands.
Barringtonia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus with this name in 1775. It is native to Africa, southern Asia, Australia, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The genus name commemorates Daines Barrington.
Xanthostemon is a genus of trees and shrubs, constituting part of the myrtle plant family Myrtaceae. This genus was first described in 1857 by German–Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller. According to different official sources between 46 and 51 species are known to science. They grow naturally in New Caledonia, Australia, the Solomon Islands and Malesia, including the Philippines, New Guinea and Indonesia. The genera Pleurocalyptus and Purpureostemon from New Caledonia are morphologically close to Xanthostemon.
Didymoplexis, commonly known as crystal orchids or as 双唇兰属 , is a genus of terrestrial leafless orchids in the family Orchidaceae, about twenty species of which have been described. Orchids in this genus have swollen, fleshy rhizomes and thin, pale, upright fleshy flowering stems with resupinate, bell-shaped white or pale yellowish brown flowers. They are native to Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Australia and various islands of the Pacific.
Pseuderia is a genus of orchids consisting of about 20 species distributed from the Moluccas through New Guinea to Samoa, Fiji and Micronesia. The genus has its center of diversity in New Guinea.
Mycaranthes is a genus of orchids. It was previously considered as a synonym of the genus Eria, but eventually it has become an accepted name. Its species are native to Southeast Asia, China, the Himalayas and New Guinea.
Epiblastus is a genus of orchids with 22 known species distributed from New Guinea, Philippines, Maluku, Sulawesi, Fiji, the Solomons, the Bismarcks, Samoa and Vanuatu.
Tropidia, commonly known as crown orchids, is a genus of about thirty species of evergreen terrestrial orchids in the family Orchidaceae. They have thin, wiry stems with two or more tough, pleated leaves with a flowering spike at the top of the stem, bearing crowded flowers. Species in this genus are distributed across the warmer parts of both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
Robiquetia, commonly known as pouched orchids, or 寄树兰属 , is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes with long, sometimes branched, fibrous stems, leathery leaves in two ranks and large numbers of small, densely crowded flowers on a pendulous flowering stem. There are about eighty species found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the Western Pacific.
Erythrodes is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 26 currently recognised species, native to Southeast Asia, China, the Indian Subcontinent, New Guinea, and some islands of the Pacific.
- Erythrodes amboinensis(J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. - Ambon
- Erythrodes bicalcarata(R.S.Rogers & C.T.White) W.Kittr. - New Guinea
- Erythrodes bicarinataSchltr. - New Guinea, Vanuatu
- Erythrodes blumei(Lindl.) Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach - from Assam east to Taiwan, south to Java
- Erythrodes boettcheriAmes - Luzon
- Erythrodes celebensisP.O'Byrne - Sulawesi
- Erythrodes forcipataSchltr. - New Guinea
- Erythrodes glandulosa(Lindl.) Ames - Borneo
- Erythrodes glaucescensSchltr. - New Guinea
- Erythrodes hirsuta(Griff.) Ormerod in G.Seidenfaden - Hainan, Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Erythrodes humilis(Blume) J.J.Sm. - Java, Sumatra, peninsular Malaysia
- Erythrodes johorensis(P.O'Byrne) Ormerod - peninsular Malaysia
- Erythrodes latifoliaBlume - Java, Sumatra, peninsular Malaysia
- Erythrodes latilobaOrmerod - Sri Lanka
- Erythrodes oxyglossaSchltr. - Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna
- Erythrodes papuanaSchltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach - New Guinea
- Erythrodes parvulaKores - Fiji, Tonga
- Erythrodes praemorsaSchltr. - New Guinea
- Erythrodes purpurascensSchltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach - New Guinea, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa
- Erythrodes sepikanaSchltr. - New Guinea
- Erythrodes sutricalcarL.O.Williams - New Guinea
- Erythrodes tetrodontaOrmerod - New Guinea
- Erythrodes torricellensisSchltr. - New Guinea
- Erythrodes trilobaCarr - Sabah
- Erythrodes weberiAmes - Philippines
- Erythrodes wenzeliiAmes - Philippines
Vrydagzynea, commonly called tonsil orchids, is a genus of orchids in the tribe Cranichideae. About forty five species of Vrydagzynea have been formally described. They are native to India, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. A single species in Australia is possibly extinct. They have thinly textured, stalked leaves and small, dull-coloured resupinate flowers with the dorsal sepal and petals overlapping to form a hood over the column.
Thelasis, commonly known as fly orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are usually epiphytes, sometimes lithophytes or rarely terrestrials. Some species have pseudobulbs with up to three leaves, whilst others have several leaves in two ranks. A large number of small, white or greenish yellow flowers are borne on a thin, arching flowering stem. There are about thirty species, distributed from tropical and subtropical Asia to the southwest Pacific.
Hymenorchis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, New Guinea and New Caledonia.
- Hymenorchis brassiiOrmerod - Papua New Guinea
- Hymenorchis caulinaSchltr. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis foliosaSchltr. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis glomeroidesJ.J.Sm. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis javanica(Teijsm. & Binn.) Schltr. - Pahang, Java
- Hymenorchis kaniensisSchltr. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis nannodesSchltr. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis saccataSchltr. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis serrataSchltr. - New Guinea
- Hymenorchis serrulata(N.Hallé) Garay - New Caledonia
- Hymenorchis taniiSchuit. & de Vogel - Papua New Guinea
- Hymenorchis vanoverberghii(Ames) Garay - Philippines
Octarrhena, commonly known as grub orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are small, orchids with short stems, thin roots, short, thick, fleshy leaves arranged in two ranks and tiny flowers. The labellum is rigidly attached to the base of the column. There are about fifty species native to areas from Sri Lanka and Malesia to the Western Pacific.
Peristylus, sometimes commonly known as ogre orchids or bog orchids is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It consists of over 100 known species found across much of eastern and southern Asia as well as in Australia and on many islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Saccolabiopsis, commonly known as pitcher orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are small epiphytes with short, fibrous stems, smooth, thin roots, a few thin, oblong to lance-shaped leaves in two ranks and large numbers of small green flowers on an unbranched flowering stem. There are about fifteen species found from the eastern Himalayas to the south-west Pacific.
Sciaphila is a genus of mycoheterotrophic plants in the family Triuridaceae. These plants receive nutrition from fungi and neighboring trees and have less need for photosynthesis. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, found in Africa, China, Japan, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Latin America and on various islands Pacific Islands.
Dischidiopsis is a genus of plant in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1904. One species (D. papuana) is native to New Guinea, while all the others endemic to the Philippines.
