GROUP Bicirrhatum
Characterized by the caespitose habit and simple, short, leafy stems blooming with a compact, nodding inflorescence with conspicuous floral bracts as long as the ovary and carrying many fleshy, green and or white flowers with a deeply bilobulate lip with sometimes cirrhate lobules and thin, unequal pollina with the inner pair being smaller without being of the bird-wing type.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 374 Dodson 1980; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 453 Bennett & Christenson 1998; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 713 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 745 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 7 Plate 795 Hagsater and Sanchez 2004 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1] Plate 1616 Hagsater & Santiago 2018 See Recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[1} Plate 1666 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 16[2] Plate 1690 Hagsater & Sanchez 2018 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 17(1) Plate 1754 Hagsater & Jimenez 2019 see recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 18(2) Plate 1887 Hagsater & Jimenez 2021 see recognition section
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