Orchidaceae

Cryptarrhena

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Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Genus Parent: Orchidaceae Status: Valid

Morphological Description

Diagnosis: ##

1 Plants with pseudobulbs; lip 5-lobulate with a central
(terminal) apicule. ..................... C. guatemalensis
1’ Plants without pseudobulbs; lip 4-lobulate without a central (terminal) apicule. ................... C. kegelii

Vegetative Morphology

Habit: Epiphytes with fan-shaped growths. Pseudobulbs highly reduced or absent.

Leaves: Leaves several to numerous, distichous.

Reproductive Morphology

Inflorescence: Inflorescences lateral racemes, as long as or surpassing the leaves, arching to pendent.

Flowers: Flowers numerous, small. Sepals and petals subequal, free, spreading. Lip spreading, three- or four-lobed, clawed with the claw keeled, +/- a terminal apicule. Column short, without wings or foot; pollinia 4, in two pairs on a common linear caudicle and minute viscidium.