Genus Crepidium section Hololobus

Genus Crepidium section Hololobus

Crepidium section Hololobus (Schltr.) Margonska, Candollea 60 (2005) 374.

Genus Crepidium section Hololobus

Lip with basal lobes (auricles) that are more or less clasping the colum; apical margin not 3-lobed, often with a bilobulate tip. . Column not elongated, without apical wings


  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Malaxideae
  • Genus Crepidium
  • Section Hololobus

Genus Crepidium section Hololobus contains 74 species, in New Guinea 6 species:

Crepidium caricoides
Crepidium carinatifolium
Crepidium dryadum
Crepidium gibbosum
Crepidium integrilabium
Crepidium nitidum


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Genus Crepidium section Hololobus

Crepidium nitidum (Schltr.) Szlach.(as Microstylis nitida Schltr.), drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 49, fig. 168