SUBGENUS Dresslera Luer 1986
Characterized by the tiny, round, striped, prostrate leaves on a repent, branching rhizome that forms dense mats and has a solitary flower that is twice to four times as large as the leaf and the peduncle arises from the short ramicaul with an annulus . The lip margin is serrulate and the disc has a pair of serrulate lamellae and at the base is an erect, verrucose callus. The column is broadly winged with a partially hooded, subapical anther.
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