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, epiphytic, rarely terrestrial, cespitose to climbing. Stems reduced [elongate], usually terminated with pseudobulb. Leaves 1–many; blade conduplicate, linear, lanceolate, or elliptic, margins entire. Inflorescences solitary flowers borne laterally within bract or leaf-axil of rhizome of mature, immature, or apparently abortive shoots; floral bracts triangular, usually acute. Flowers: sepals and petals nearly same; dorsal sepal erect, concave; lateral sepals adnate to column-foot; lip 3-lobed or simple; column not winged, semiterete, with foot at base; pollinia 4, waxy; stigmatic cavity round; rostellum not prominent. Fruits capsules, ellipsoid to obovoid.

Distribution

Tropical regions, Western Hemisphere

Discussion

Species ca. 650 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Maxillaria crassifolia, Maxillaria parviflora

Key

1	Plants conspicuously rhizomatous; pseudobulbs conspicuous; sepals less than 1 cm.	Maxillaria parviflora
1	Plants cespitose; pseudobulbs absent or hidden from view; sepals more than 1 cm.	Maxillaria crassifolia