Family Orchidaceae Subfamily Epidendroideae Tribe Nervilieae
Nervilieae Dressler, Lindleyana 117 (1990)-25. Type: Nervilia Gaud
Synonyms:
Terrestrials, autotrophs or mycoheterotrophs, herbaceous. Tubers, tuberous rhizomes or coralloid stems subterranean; tubers spherical to ellipsoid, with several-nodes. Roots without a velamen. Leaf reduced, sheath-like and without chlorophyll, or leaf developed, solitary, plicate, not articulate, usually not simultaneous with the inflorescence, erect, or parallel to or appressed to the substrate, hairy or glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, erect, racemose; floral bracts persistent. Flowers spirally arranged on the rachis, short-lived, resupinate or not, subcampanulate, erect, spreading or pendent. Ovary 6ribbed. Sepals free, not spreading widely, linear-lanceolate. Petals free, similar to the sepals but smaller. Lip often free, more or less embracing the column, entire to 3-lobed, with a lamellate or hairy callus, rarely with a spur at the base. Column club-shaped; anther incumbent, 2-celled; pollinia 2, 2-locular, sectile, without caudicles or viscidia; stigma entire; rostellum flap-like.
(after Cribb 2005)
Tribe Nervilieae contains 2 subtribes and is distributed in western Europe, the Old World tropics and the subtropics of Africa, Madagascar, Asia, Taiwan, Malesia, Australia to the southwest Pacific islands.
- Cribb, P.J. Tribe Nervilieae. In Pridgeon, A.M., P.J. Cribb, M.W. Chase & F.N. Rasmussen (edit.), Genera Orhidacearum 4, Epidendroideae (Part One) (2005) 516.
- Pettersson, B. Nervilia (Orchidaceae) in Africa. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis 281 (1990) 1-26.
- Pettersson, B. Studies in the genus Nervilia (Orchidaceae) in Africa. Nordic Journal of Botany 9 (1990) 487-497.
- Pettersson, B. The genus Nervilia (Orchidaceae) in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Orchid Monographs (1991) i-v, 1-89, fig. 1-69, plate 1-4.
- Schlechter, R. Nervilia. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 45 (1911) 399-405.
- Schlechter, R. Nervilia. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 53 (1915) 550-555.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Nervilieae
Tribe Nervilieae in New Guinea contains 2 subtribes
Epipogiinae
Nerviliinae
ARTIFICIAL KEY TO THE SUBTRIBES OF THE TRIBE NERVILIEAE IN NEW GUINEA
Artificial key to the subtribes of Nervilieae
Leaf developed, solitary, usually not simultaneous with the flowering shoot. Plant with chlorophyll == Nerviliinae
Leaves reduced to scales or absent. Plant without chlorophyll == Epipogiinae
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