Diurideae Genera
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Diurideae Genera
Diurideae is a tribe of orchid in the subfamily Orchidoideae. It contains about 40 accepted genera. , its division into subtribes remained unclear. Genera Chase et al. (2015) accepted the following genera. Some have since been combined. *''Acianthus'' R.Br. *''Adenochilus'' Hook.f. *''Aporostylis'' Rupp & Hatch *''Arthrochilus'' F.Muell. *''Burnettia'' Lindl. *''Caladenia'' R.Br. *''Caleana'' R.Br. *''Calochilus'' R.Br. *''Chiloglottis'' R.Br. *''Coilochilus'' Schltr. *''Corybas (plant), Corybas'' Salisb. *''Cryptostylis'' R.Br. *''Cyanicula'' Hopper & A.P.Brown = ''Caladenia'' *''Cyrtostylis'' R.Br. *''Diuris'' Sm. *''Drakaea'' Lindl. *''Elythranthera'' (Endl.) A.S.George *''Epiblema (plant), Epiblema'' R.Br. *''Ericksonella'' Hopper & A.P.Br. *''Eriochilus'' R.Br. *''Genoplesium'' R.Br. *''Glossodia'' R.Br. *''Leporella'' A.S.George *''Leptoceras'' (R.Br.) Lindl. *''Lyperanthus'' R.Br. *''Megastylis'' (Schltr.) Schltr. *''Microtis (plant), Microtis'' ...
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Orthoceras Strictum
'' Orthoceras strictum'', commonly known as the bird's-mouth orchid or horned orchid, is a species of orchid Indigenous (ecology), native to eastern and southern Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. It has between two and five linear leaves and up to nine yellowish green, brownish or blackish flowers with two long, erect to spreading wikt:lateral, lateral sepals. Description ''Orthoceras strictum'' is a terrestrial, Perennial plant, perennial, deciduous, Herbaceous plant, herb with an underground tuber and a tuft of between two and five linear to thread-like, grass-like leaves, long and wide. Up to nine flowers wide are borne on a rigid flowering stem tall. Flower colour varies from blackish, brownish, maroon to yellowish green. The dorsal sepal is egg-shaped and forms a hood over the rest of the flower, long and wide. The lateral sepals are linear, horn-like, long, about wide and erect, spreading or curved. The petals are oblong, long, about wide and hidden inside ...
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Arthrochilus
''Arthrochilus'', commonly called elbow orchids, is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) and is found in Australia and New Guinea. The flowers are pollinated by male thynnid wasps which attempt to mate with the flower and are held in place by hooks while the pollinium is transferred between insect and flower. Description Orchids in the genus ''Arthrochilus'' are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs usually with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and a single oval-shaped tuber lacking a protective fibrous sheath. ('' A. huntianus'' lacks a true tuber.) Some species form colonies, reproducing asexually from daughter tubers formed on the end of root-like stolons. The stem is short, erect and unbranched with thin, leaf-like cataphylls at each node. There are up to six leaves at or near the base of the plant, sometimes forming a rosette around the stem. The inflorescence is a raceme with a few to many non- resupinate, ...
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Epiblema (plant)
''Epiblema grandiflorum'', commonly known as babe-in-a-cradle, is the only species in the flowering plant genus ''Epiblema'' in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a colony-forming orchid which grows in peaty swamps near the coast. Its flowers are purple with ribbon-like strands attached to its labellum and a broad, petal-like column. Description ''Epiblema grandiflorum'' is a terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herb with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and an oval-shaped tuber lacking a protective sheath. The tuber produces replacement tubers on the end of short, root-like stolons. There is a single, tubular leaf about long, about wide at the base of the plant. There are between two and eight resupinate flowers on the end of a wiry stem high. The flowers are purple, long and wide, on a short stalk surrounded by a leaf-like bract. The three sepals and two lateral petals are free from, and more or less similar ...
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Elythranthera
''Elythranthera'', commonly known as enamel orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two species and a named hybrid, all endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The genus was first formally described in 1963 by the Australian botanist Alex George who published his description in ''Western Australian Naturalist''. Two species are recognised: *'' Elythranthera brunonis'' ( Endl.) A.S.George - purple enamel orchid; *'' Elythranthera emarginata'' ( Lindl.) A.S.George - pink enamel orchid. A hybrid between the two species was known as ''Elythranthera x intermedia''. ( Fitzg.) M.A.Clem In 2015, as a result of studies of molecular phylogenetics, Mark Clements transferred the two ''Elythranthera'' species to ''Caladenia'' but the change is not accepted by the Australian Plant Census, nor by the Western Australian Herbarium. Plants of the World Online lists ''Elythranthera'' as a synonym of ''Caladenia ''Caladenia'', com ...
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Drakaea
''Drakaea'' is a genus of 10 species in the plant family Orchidaceae commonly known as hammer orchids. All ten species occur only in the south-west of Western Australia. Hammer orchids are characterised by an insectoid labellum that is attached to a narrow, hinged stem, which holds it aloft. The stem can hinge only backwards, where the broadly winged column carries the pollen and stigma. Each species of hammer orchid is pollinated by a specific species of thynnid wasp. Thynnid wasps are unusual in that the female is flightless and mating occurs when the male carries a female away to a source of food. The labellum of the orchid resembles a female thynnid wasp in shape, colour and scent. Insect pollination involving sexual attraction is common in orchids but the interaction between the male thynnid wasp and the hammer orchid is unique in that it involves the insect trying to fly away with a part of the flower. Description Hammer orchids have a single thumbnail-sized, flat, hea ...
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Diuris
''Diuris'', commonly known as donkey orchids, bee orchids, nanny goat orchids or pansy orchids, is a genus of more than sixty species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia, apart from one species endemic to Timor. The name "''Diuris''" refers to the hanging sepals but the common name "donkey orchid", derives from the ear-like petals common to all species. Many have mainly yellow flowers with darker markings and are thought to mimic nectar-producing flowers which open at the same time. Description Orchids in the genus ''Diuris'' are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs, usually with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and one or two tubers lacking a protective sheath. The stem is short, erect and unbranched with a leaf-like cataphyll at each node. There are between one and ten grass-like leaves at the base of the plant. The inflorescence is a raceme with a few to many brightly coloured, resupinate flowers on a wiry stalk. Th ...
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Cyrtostylis
''Cyrtostylis'', commonly known as gnat orchids, is a genus of five or six species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is native to Australia and New Zealand. Cyrtostylis orchids often form dense colonies of genetically identical plants. They have a single heart-shaped leaf and a thin flowering stem with pale coloured insect-like flowers. The lateral sepals and petals are similar in size and colour but the labellum is shelf-like and conspicuous with two prominent glands at its base. Description Orchids in the genus ''Cyrtostylis'' are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs, usually with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and one or two tubers. They often form dense colonies of cloned plants. There is a single green, heart-shaped, ground-hugging leaf at the base of the flowering stem. The thin flowering stem bears one to a few flowers with the column at the top. The flowers are usually pale coloured with an erect dorsal sepal and spreading lateral ...
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Cryptostylis
''Cryptostylis'', commonly known as tongue orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family. Tongue orchids are terrestrial herbs with one to a few stalked leaves at the base of the flowering stem, or leafless. One to a few dull coloured flowers are borne on an erect flowering stem. The most conspicuous part of the flower is the labellum, compared to the much reduced sepals and petals. At least some species are pollinated by wasps when they attempt to mate with the flower. There are about twenty five species found in South Asia, Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Description Orchids in the genus ''Cryptostylis'' are terrestrial, perennial herbs with a thick, branching underground rhizome with vertical shoots forming at nodes. The plant has thick, fleshy roots but lacks a tuber. There are one to a few erect leaves, each with a distinct petiole and often purple on the lower surface, although '' C. hunteriana'' is saprophytic and leafless. New leaves are produced ...
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Corybas (plant)
''Corybas'', commonly known as helmet orchids, is a genus of about 120 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Helmet orchids are small, perennial, deciduous herbs and are nearly always terrestrial. They have a single leaf at their base and a single flower on a short stalk, the flower dominated by its large dorsal sepal and labellum. Species of ''Corybas'' are found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Himalayas, southern China, many Pacific islands and a few sub-Antarctic islands. Description Orchids in the genus ''Corybas'' are perennial, deciduous, sympodial, usually terrestrial herbs, lacking roots. (A few sometimes grow as epiphytes on the fibrous bark of tree ferns or on the mossy branches of trees.) They have an underground tuber which is more or less spherical and fleshy. New tubers form at the end of root-like stolons. There is a single, heart-shaped, kidney-shaped or almost round leaf, usually at ground level and a short erect stem ...
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Coilochilus
''Coilochilus'' is a genus of terrestrial orchids containing only one species, ''Coilochilus neocaledonicum'', endemic to New Caledonia. This monotypic genus was described by German botanist Rudolf Schlechter in 1906 and is now placed in the subtribe Cryptostylidinae. Distribution and habitat ''Coilochilus neocaledonicum'' is widespread on the island of Grande Terre in New Caledonia. It occurs in humid forests dominated by species of ''Agathis'' and ''Araucaria'' and in moist shrubland gullies at elevations of above sea level. Description ''Coilochilus neocaledonicum'' is a perennial terrestrial herb. It lacks tubers, but has thick, fleshy roots. Only one strap-like leaf arises per shoot. The inflorescence is an erect raceme that bears many tiny, dull-coloured flowers. The fruits are dehiscent capsules. Conservation status ''Coilochilus neocaledonicum'' is listed as least concern on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature Red List, though some populations may ...
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Chiloglottis
''Chiloglottis'', commonly known as wasp orchids, ant orchids or bird orchids, is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is found in eastern Australia and New Zealand. Wasp orchids are terrestrial herbs which grow in colonies of genetically identical plants. They usually have two leaves at the base of the plant and a single resupinate ("upside-down") flower. The labellum is more or less diamond-shaped and has calli resembling the body of a wingless female wasp. Taxonomy and naming The genus ''Chiloglottis'' was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown. Brown described '' Chiloglottis diphylla'' at the same time, making it the type species. David Jones has transferred some species, especially those commonly known as "bird orchids" (''Simpliglottis'') and "ant orchids" (''Myrmechila'') to other genera, but the change has not been widely accepted. Distribution This genus of orchids is native to Australia and New Zealand ( ...
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Calochilus
''Calochilus'', commonly known as beard orchids, is a genus of about 30 species of plants in the orchid Family (biology), family, Orchidaceae. Beard orchids are Terrestrial plant, terrestrial Herbaceous plant, herbs with a single leaf at the base of the plant, or no leaves. Their most striking feature is a densely hairy labellum (botany), labellum, giving rise to their common name. Beard orchids, unlike some other Australian orchids, do not reproduce using daughter tubers, but Self-pollination, self-pollinate when Pollination#Mechanism, cross-pollination has not occurred. Most species occur in Australia but some are found in New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia. Description Orchids in the genus ''Calochilus'' are terrestrial, Perennial plant, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and a pair of egg-shaped tubers lacking a protective fibrous Tunica (biology), sheath. The tubers produce replacement tubers on the end of a short, root-like ...
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