Goodyera

Cranichideae subtribe Goodyerinae

Succulent trailing terrestrials rooting at the nodes. Leaves in a rosette or scattered along stem, petiolate, often variously colored and variegated. Inflorescences terminal subsessile to long-penculate erect racemes, often pubescent. Flowers globose or tubular, often secund, often barely opening, white, green or reddish-brown. Dorsal sepal and petals appressed forming a hood or banner over the column, the lateral sepals free, sometimes spreading-divergent. Lip unlobed, saccate, with long internal trichomes. Column short, withour wings or foot, the rostellum elongate, deeply bifid; pollinia 2, often deeply cleft, on a common elongate viscidium.

Honoring the early English botanists John Goodyer.

A cosmopolitan genus of about 55 species, absent in Africa. Asian species of Goodyera with variegated leaves are a minor component of traditional Chinese medicine.

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