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T r i b e L ~ M A L A X I D E A E .
PolHnia 2 or 4, waxy, without appendages, free or rarely attached by their bases
to a ball of translucent niatter.
•Pollinia 4—
*7>om equitani—
Epiphytal; leaves fl03liy, sessile; infloresoence terminal; flowers miaate,
iu racemes or spikes; column very short, without appendages . . . 1. Ohoronia.
** Leaves not equitant—
Terrestrial; leaves membranous, usually sessile; infloreseenco terminal; flowers
small, in racemes or spikes; lip with basal (often very large) auricles;
column very short, with bro.ad arms Microstylis.
Terrestrial cr epiphytal; leaves 1 or 2, rarely more, membranous, sessile ;
ioflorescenca tenniual, racemose, flowers small; lip without basal or
side lobes; column long, with callosities or winga or with both;
rostellum sometimes double Liparis.
Terrestrial; leaf solitary, membranous, petioled; inflorescence terminal from
a small pseudobulb; flowers minute, racemose; lip with a short spur,
but without lobes or teeth; column without appeodages I/-. Didicea.
E p i p h y t a l ; coespitose (rhizoraatous in sect. Sarcopoducn) •, leaves two or more
(rarely one), from pseudobulbs or stems, membranous or coriaceous;
iuflorescenee terminal or axillary, in short few-flowered peduncles or
in few- or many-flowered racemes; flowers usually large, brightly
coloured; column without appendages, itself short, but with a more or
less elongated foot forming with the lateral sepals a mentum or aac;
polliuia of eciual length 5, DmdrohUim.
Epiphytal with a rhizome bearing pseudobulbs or solitary leaves (rhizome
sometimes absent); leaves solitary and coriaceous, or in pairs and membranous
; inflorescence a scape from the base of the pseudobulb or
from the rhizome between pseudobulbs; flowers solitary oi in heads,
spikes, racemes or umbels; lip fleshy, tumid, jointed to the foot of the
column, mobile, usually without side lobes; column short and stout,
toothed towards the apes; foot short or long; inner pair of polliuia
small.
Flowers rarely umbellate; lateral sepals not muoh longer than the
dorsal, free; pollinia always free 6. Bullcphijliim.
Flowers usually umbellate; lateral sepals much longer than the dorsal
and usually connate; pollinia sometimes attached to a ball of
translucent substance 7. Cirrhopetahm.
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