Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Cyrtopodium polyphyllum Galeandra bicarinata Maxillaria parviflora Sisyrinchium littorale Sisyrinchium idahoense var. occidentale Sisyrinchium sagittiferum Sisyrinchium septentrionale	Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey

Herbs, terrestrial [epiphytic], cespitose. Stems reedlike or more often pseudobulbs. Leaves 1–2 [several], not articulate [articulate], plicate, absent [present] at flowering. Inflorescences terminal, racemes, erect [lightly arching to pendent]; floral bracts lanceolate, scarious. Flowers resupinate, showy; sepals and petals membranaceous; lip sessile, simple [obscurely 2–3-lobate], base with conspicuous spur adnate to column-foot, margins tomentose [glabrous]; spur shortly conic [sometimes apically recurved, funnel-shaped]; disc basally 2 [–4] -keeled; column lightly arcuate, shallowly winged, semiterete, produced into conspicuous foot; anther terminal, incumbent, operculate, imperfectly 2-locular; pollinia 2, yellow, nearly spheric, cartilaginous. Fruits capsules.

Distribution

Tropical and semitropical regions, North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America

Discussion

Species 20–24 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Galeandra bicarinata