Family Orchidaceae Subfamily Epidendroideae Tribe Nervilieae Subtribe Epipogiinae
Epipogiinae Schltr., Notizbl. 9 (XXXX) 571. Type genus: Epipogium S.G.Gmel. ex Ehrh.
Synonyms:
Terrestrials, leafless, mycoholotrophic, without chlorophyll, herbaceous. Roots absent or reduced and with root hairs, without velamen. Rhizome tuber-like or a coralloid underground stem. Stem erect, fleshy, white to buff-coloured. Leaves reduced to scale leaves, white to buff coloured; leaf sheath present. lnflorescence terminal, not branched, racemose, white to buff-coloured; rachis terete; floral bracts persistent. Flowers fleshy, resupinate or not. Ovary ellipsoid. Sepals rather similar, not connate. Petals free, smaller than the sepals. Lip not lobed to 3-lobed, without callus or callus with papillate ridges; spur present or not. Column fleshy, terete; anther incumbent or suberect; pollinia 2, sectile, attached by 1 or 2 caudicles to 1 or 2 small elliptical viscidia; stigma entire, concave; rostellum transverse.
(after Cribb 2005)
Subtribe Epipogiinae contains 3 genera distributed in the temperate and tropical regions of the Old World from Europe and Africa, Asia, the southwest Pacific islands, and Australia.
- Cribb, P.J. Subtribe Epipogiinae . In Pridgeon, A.M., P.J. Cribb, M.W. Chase & F.N. Rasmussen (edit.), Genera Orhidacearum 4, Epidendroideae (Part One) (2005) 521.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Nervilieae
- Subtribe Epipogiinae
Subtribe Epipogiinae in New Guinea contains 2 genera:
Epipogium
Stereosandra
ARTIFICIAL KEY TO THE GENERA OF SUBTRIBE EPIPOGIINAE IN NEW GUINEA
1a. Lip with a basal spur and a callus of several papillose ridges == Epipogium
1b. Lip without a spur and callus == Stereosandra
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