Taxon	Illustrator ⠉
	Brassia caudata Ionopsis utricularioides Macradenia lutescens Oncidium ensatum Trichocentrum undulatum Tolumnia bahamensis	Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi Barbara Alongi

Herbs, epiphytic, ± cespitose. Stems either reduced and covered with sheathing bracts or elongate with prominent, single-noded pseudobulb. Leaves 1 (–2) per sympodium, from apex of pseudobulb, often with 1–3 short foliaceous bracts subtending single-noded pseudobulb; blade conduplicate, oblong-lanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, margins entire. Inflorescences lateral, racemes; bracts narrowly triangular. Flowers: sepals and petals distinct and free, long, attenuate-caudate; lip unlobed; callus prominent, 2-lamellate; column without appendages, footless; stigmatic cavity ± round; rostellum not prominent. Fruits capsules.

Distribution

Subtropics and tropics, Western Hemisphere

Discussion

Species 35 (1 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

Brassia caudata