Orchid Information - Family Orchidaceae Subfamily Epidendroideae Tribe Cymbidieae Subtribe Eulophiinae

Eulophiinae Benth., J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 18 (1881) 287 (as Eulophieae). Type genus: Eulophia R.Br. ex Lindl.

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Terrestrials, lithophytes or epiphytes, herbaceous, rarely heteromycotrophic or holomycotrophic without chlorophyll. Roots branching, basal or rarely along the stem, sometimes with ascending branches. Corm stem-like or pseudobul b-like if above the ground, rhizome- or or tuber-like if subterranean, cylindrical, fusiform, conical or ovoid, rarely without leaves. Leaves pleated or conduplicate, linear, lanceolate, ovate, obovate or elliptic, coriaceous, rarely scale-like and without chlorophyll in mycotrophic species; leaf sheath present; blade articulate with the leaf sheath; apex obtuse, acute or acuminate. lnflorescence lateral, axillary or subterminal, racemose, branched or not; bracts persistent or deciduous. Ovary cylindric, grooved. Sepa!s not connate, erect, reflexed or porrect; lateral sepals oblique at the base, otherwise similar to the median sepal, sometimes attached to the column foot. Petals not connate, similar or dissimilar to the sepals, often broader. Lip attached to base of the column or the column foot, rarely fused to the basal margins of the column, 3-lobed, with or without spur; lateral lobes usually free or rarely fused to the the column; midlobe flat or convex; callus 2- or 3-ridged, papillose or pubescent. Column usually straight but sometimes curved or sigmoid; column foot present or not; pollinia 2 and deeply cleft or 4 and in pairs of unequal size, usually subglobose and bilaterally flattened; stipe 1 or occasionally 2, triangular to oblong; viscidium oblong, elliptic to lunate, rarely absent.
(after Cribb 2009)

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