Diagnostic ¹

"Terrestrial herbs, base swollen. Leaves 3 or 4, 5-8 x 3 cm, elliptic, apex acute, sessile, margin undulate. Racemes terminal, bracts 3 mm, deltoid. Flowers creamy-yellow; sepals ca 5 x 2 mm, lanceolate, acute; petals to 5 x 1 mm, linear, lip 5 x 3 mm, subpandurate, emarginate, apex shortly pectinate; disc with two calli at base, column ca 3 x 2 mm, covered, foot absent, pollinia ovoid, waxy."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26342538

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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