Thrixspermum, commonly known as hairseeds or 白点兰属 , is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are epiphytes, lithophytes or terrestrial plants with flat, leathery leaves and short-lived flowers with the sepals and petals more or less similar to each other. The labellum is rigidly fixed to the column and has three lobes. The side lobes are erect and the middle lobe is thick and fleshy. There are about 190 species distributed from tropical and subtropical Asia to the Western Pacific. Most species grow in lowland or tropical rainforests up to an altitude of 1,200 m.
Pseudovanilla, commonly known as giant climbing orchids, is a genus of eight climbing orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus have tall climbing stems with clinging roots, leaf-like bracts and branching flowering stems with colourful, spreading sepals and petals. Species in the genus are native to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Solomons, Micronesia and Fiji.
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.
Pinalia, commonly known as gremlin orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are large epiphytic or lithophytic plants with prominent pseudobulbs, each with up to three thin, flat leaves and cup-shaped, relatively short-lived flowers with scale-like brown hairs on the outside. There are about 120 species occurring from tropical to subtropical Asia to the south-west Pacific.
Phreatia, commonly known as lace orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, native to regions bordering the Pacific and Indian Oceans. Plants in this genus are epiphytes, sometimes with pseudobulbs, in which case there are usually one or two leaves. Others lack pseudobulbs but have up to twelve leaves. A large number of small white or greenish flowers are borne on a flowering stem emerging from a leaf axil or from the base of the pseudobulb when present but the flowers do not open widely. There are about 220 species, distributed from tropical and subtropical Asia to the Pacific.
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.
The genus Arachnis, abbreviated as Arach in horticultural trade, is a member of the orchid family (Orchidaceae), consisting of more than 20 species native to China, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands.
Robiquetia, commonly known as pouched orchids, 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.
Trichoglottis, commonly known as cherub orchids or 毛舌兰属 , is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are epiphytic plants with thick roots, relatively thick, fibrous stems and many large, thick, leathery leaves arranged in two ranks. The flowers are usually small and yellowish with light brown or purple markings. The flowers have broad sepals, narrower petals and a labellum which has three lobes and is often hairy. There are about 85 species distributed from tropical and subtropical Asia to the north-western Pacific. Most species grow in rainforest.
Aglossorrhyncha is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family Orchidaceae. It contains 13 currently recognized species, native to eastern Indonesia, New Guinea, and various islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Collabium is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Species of Collabium are typically terrestrial and grow under shade in forests. They are distributed in southeast Asia from the Himalayas in India, Burma to China, and to the island groups in Malaysia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Fiji.
Dilochia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 8 known species, native to Southeast Asia and New Guinea.
- Dilochia beamaniiOrmerod - Borneo(Sabah)
- Dilochia cantleyi(Hook.f.) Ridl. - Indonesia, New Guinea
- Dilochia carnosaSulist. - Indonesia(Sumat ra)
- Dilochia celebica(Schltr.) Schltr. - Sulawesi
- Dilochia deleoniaeTandang & Galindon - Philippines
- Dilochia elmeriAmes - Philippines
- Dilochia longilabrisJ.J.Sm. - Sulawesi, Borneo
- Dilochia parvifloraJ.J.Sm. - Borneo
- Dilochia rigida(Ridl.) J.J.Wood - Sabah
- Dilochia subsessilis(Rolfe) S.Thomas - Myanmar
- Dilochia wallichiiLindl. - Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Philippines
Dimorphorchis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 9 species, which are native to Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Solomon Islands, and Brunei.
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.
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.
Platylepis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is widespread across sub-Saharan Africa and also on various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
- Platylepis bigibbosaH.Perrier - Madagascar
- Platylepis bombusJ.J.Sm. - Seram
- Platylepis commelynae(Lindl.) Rchb.f. - Society Islands
- Platylepis constricta(J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. - New Guinea
- Platylepis densifloraRolfe - Réunion
- Platylepis geluana(Schltr.) Schuit. & de Vogel - New Guinea
- Platylepis glandulosa(Lindl.) Rchb.f. - widespread across tropical and southern Africa
- Platylepis grandiflora(Schltr.) Ormerod - New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Futuna
- Platylepis heteromorphaRchb.f. - Samoa
- Platylepis intricataSchuit. & de Vogel - Papua New Guinea
- Platylepis lamellataSchltr. - New Guinea
- Platylepis margaritiferaSchltr. - Madagascar
- Platylepis occulta(Thouars) Rchb.f. - Madagascar, Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles
- Platylepis polyadeniaRchb.f. - Madagascar, Comoros
- Platylepis rufa(Frapp.) Schltr. - Réunion
- Platylepis tidorensisJ.J.Sm. - Maluku
- Platylepis viscosa(Rchb.f.) Schltr. - Réunion
- Platylepis xerosteleOrmerod - Cameroon
- Platylepis zeuxinoidesSchltr. - New Guinea
Pomatocalpa, commonly known as bladder orchids, or 鹿角兰属 , is a genus of about twenty five species from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are epiphytes or lithophytes with thick, leathery leaves and a large number of small flowers with a three-lobed labellum. There are about twenty five species found from tropical and subtropical Asia to the south-west Pacific.
Sarcanthopsis, commonly known as goliath orchids, is a genus of six species of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are large epiphytes or lithophytes with long, thick, leathery stems, large, crowded leathery leaves and many yellowish flowers on a branched flowering stem. Orchids in this genus occur in New Guinea and islands of the south-west Pacific.
Rhomboda, commonly known as velvet jewel orchids, is a genus of about twenty species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are mostly terrestrial herbs with a fleshy, creeping rhizome and a loose rosette of green to maroon coloured leaves. Small resupinate or partly resupinate, dull coloured flowers are borne on a hairy flowering stem. The dorsal sepal and petals overlap and form a hood over the column and there is a deep pouch at the base of the labellum. They are found in tropical regions from northern India through Southeast Asia, China, Japan to Australia and some Pacific Islands.
