小沼兰属 xiao zhao lan shu

Authors:Authors: Xinqi Chen & Jeffrey J. Wood

Herbs, terrestrial or lithophytic, with clustered growths. Pseudobulbs ovoid, fleshy. Leaf solitary, convolute, not plicate, fleshy, petiolate, non-articulate at base. Inflorescence erect, racemose; peduncle terete, much longer than rachis, glabrous. Flowers resupinate. Sepals concave, free, subsimilar. Petals linear, 1-veined; lip sessile, not auriculate, 3-lobed; lateral lobes linear or triangular, enfolding column; mid-lobe larger, bilobed, porrect; callus basal, fleshy, bifid. Column lacking a foot; anther cap dorsal, erect; pollinia ?4, bifid, lacking viscidia; staminodes absent; rostellum erect, truncate; ovary glabrous; stigma transversely obovoid.

Two species: China, Thailand; one species (endemic) in China.