GROUP Alpicolum SUBGROUP Pergracile
Characterized by the sympodial, caspitose to sometimes somewhat creeping habit, stems cane-like, simple, several leaved, with an elongate apical, racemose, lax-flowered inflorescence, the flowers star-shaped, membranaceous, the lip 3-lobed, not fleshy thickened, bicallose, the mid-lobe rectangular to triangular, the lateral lobes dolabriform to semi-orbicular
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1424 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1435 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section; Icones Orchidacearum 14 Plate 1444 Hagsater & Santiago 2013 See recognition section;