Family Orchidaceae Subfamily Epidendroideae Tribe Tropidieae
Tropidieae (Pfitzer) Dressler, Telopia 2 (1983) 422.
Synonyms:
- Subtribe Corymbidinae Miquel, Fl. lnd. Bat. 3 (1855) 736 (as 'Corymbidae'), nom. illeg. Type genus: Corymbis Lindl., nom. illeg.
- Subtribe Tropidiinae Pfitzer, Entw. Nat. Anord. Orch. (1887) 99. Type genus: Tropidia Lindl.
- Subfamily Tropidioideae (Pfitzer) Szlach., Fragm. Flor. Geobot. Suppl. 3 (1995) 35.
Terrestrials, herbaceous. Roots wiry. Rhizome present. Stems erect, woody, reed-like or shrubby. Leaves scale-like and without chlorophyll, or usually normally developed, not articulate, convolute, plicate, ovate or lanceolate, rarely linear; apex acuminate. Inflorescence lateral or terminal, few- to many-flowered, racemose or paniculate. Sepals free, in some species at the base connate. Lip hypochile cymbiform or narrow, more-or-less keeled; epichile flattened and often reflexed; spur present or not. Column straight, shorter than the lip; anther erect, dorsal, elongate, with 2 2-partite, sectile pollinia; rostellum erect, 2-partite after removal of the viscidium; viscidium connected to the pollinia by a long, slender hamulus. Fruit oblong, with remnants of the withered perianth.
(after Rasmussen 2005)
Tribe Tropidieae contains 2 genera with less than 30 species and is pantropical.
- Rasmussen, F.N. Tribe Tropidieae. In A.M. Pridgeon, P.J. Cribb, M.W. Chase & F.N. Rasmussen (edit.), Genera Orchidacearum Vol. 4. Epidendroideae (Part one) (2005) 617.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Tropidieae
Tribe Tropidieae in New Guinea contains 2 genera:
Corymborkis
Tropidia
ARTIFICIAL KEY TO THE GENERA OF THE TRIBE TROPIDIEAE IN NEW GUINEA
Lip without a spur, not saccate. Column much longer than 2x the length of the anther == Corymborkis
Lip saccate or with a spur. Column shorter than 2x the length of the anther == Tropidia
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