Family Orchidaceae Subfamily Epidendroideae Tribe Nervilieae Subtribe Nerviliinae
Nerviliinae Schltr., Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 9 (1926) 571 (as 'Nervilieae'). Type genus: Nervilia Gaud.
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Terrestrials. autotrophic, herbaceous. Tubers underground, spherical, globose or elliptic. Leaf solitary, usually not simultaneous with the inflorescence, thin-textured, green or marked or spotted with purple on upper side, green or purple beneath, hairy or glabrous; pedicel partly underground; blade ovate, lanceolate-elliptic or heart-shaped, erect or parallel to the substrate, appressed to the ground or above it. Inflorescence erect, racemose; floral bracts lanceolate, persistent. Flowers short-lived, not opening widely, resupinate, sub-campanulate, spreading or pendent, sometimes self-pollinating. Sepals rather similar, linear-lanceolate. Petals similar to the sepals but shorter and membranous. Lip embracing the column, entire to 3-lobed, with a lamellate or hairy callus; spurr rarely present. Column club-shaped; anther incumbent, 2-celled; pollinia 2, sectile; stigma ventral. Ovary 6-ribbed. Fruit a capsule, strongly keeled in Nervilia sect. Nervilia.
(after Cribb 2005)
Subtribe Nerviliinae consists of 1 genus, Nervilia, with about 60 species in the Cape Verde Islands, tropical and south-east Africa, Yemen, Madagascar, subtropical and tropical Asia, the Malay Archipelago, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, New Guinea, tropical Australia, and the southwest Pacific islands.
- Cribb, P.J. Subtribe Nerviliinae. In Pridgeon, A.M., P.J. Cribb, M.W. Chase & F.N. Rasmussen (edit.), Genera Orhidacearum 4, Epidendroideae (Part One) (2005) 516.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Nervilieae
- Subtribe Nerviliinae
Subtribe Nerviliinae consists of 1 genus, with about 60 species
Nervilia,
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