Vandeae Lindl., ColL Bot., App. (1821). Type genus: Vanda R.Br.
Synonyms:
Epiphytes, lithophytes, or rarely terrestrials, monopodial or sympodial, herbaceous. Stems 1- to many-leaved; in sympodial taxa stems in tufts or spaced on a rhizome, often swollen into hetero- or homoblastic pseudobulbs. Leaves usually distichous, rarely secund or quaquaversal, conduplicate, glabrous; leaf sheath present. lnflorescence lateral or terminal, racemose or paniculate, sometimes 1-flowered. Flowers resupinate or not, ephemeral to long-lasting, distichous, secund or quaquaversal. Sepals entire, free or rarely connate. Petals entire, free or rarely adnate to the sepals. Lip free, immobile, or hinged to the column or the column foot and mobile, entire or lobed, with or without keels and/or calli, with or without a spur. Column usually without stelidia; column foot present or absent; anther helmet-shaped, 2-or 4locular, pollinia 2 (sometimes porate or cleft), 4 (sometimes unequal-sized) or 8, hard-waxy, with or without caudicles; stipe present or not; viscidium present or rarely absent, sometimes of complex shape; stigma concave; rostellum short or beak-like elongated, entire or 2-or 3-dentate. Ovary and pedicel terete or 6-ribbed, glabrous or rarely pubescent, rarely winged. Fruit a capsule, subspherical to oblong to narrowly cylindric, 1-locular, smooth or 6-ribbed, rarely winged.
(after Schuiteman 2014)
Tribe Vandeae contains 5 subtribes with 139 genera and about 2600 species, distributed in tropical America, tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar and neighbouring islands, tropical and subtropical Asia, eastern Australia and Tasmania, and much of the tropical Pacific south to New Zealand and east to Tahiti.
Tribe Vandeae contains 5 Subtribes with 139 Genera; in New Guinea 3 Subtribes with 29 Genera:
Adrorhizinae
Aeridinae
Agrostophyllinae
ARTIFICIAL KEY TO THE SUBTRIBES OF THE TRIBE VANDEAE IN NEW GUINEA
1a. Plants monopodial == Aeridinae
1b. Plants sympodial == 2
2a. Pollinia 8 == Agrostophyllinae (Agrostophyllum)
2b. Pollinia 2 == Adrorhizinae (Bromheadia)
Adrorhizinae
Bromheadia
Aeridinae
Adenoncos
Aerides
Bogoria
Brachypeza
Calymmanthera
Cleisostoma
Dimorphorchis
Dryadorchis
Gunnarella
Hymenorchis
Luisia
Micropera
Phalaenopsis
Pomatocalpa
Renanthera
Rhinerrhizopsis
Robiquetia
Saccolabiopsis
Sarcanthopsis
Sarcochilus
Schoenorchis
Taeniophyllum
Trachoma
Thrixspermum
Trichoglottis
Vanda
Vandopsis
Agrostophyllinae
Agrostophyllum
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