Hemipilia
(pronounced: hem-ee-PEEL-lee-ah)
Classification
Orchideae subtribe Orchidinae
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Overview
Terrestrials arising from flesy fasciculate roots or tubers. Leaves one, basal, sessile, broadly ovate, often richly patterned. Inflorescences terminal, pedunculate, the floral bracts inconspicuous. Flowers resupinate, often secund. Sepals and petals free, subsimilar, subequal, the doral sepal and petals forming a hood over the column. Lip unlobed to three-lobed, sessile, +/- basal keels, with a short to elongate spur. Column short, the rostellum large, erect-recurved, flanked by a pair of staminodia; pollinia 2, on separate caudicles.
Etymology
From the Greek hemi, meaning half, and pilos, meaning felt, referring to the sparsely pubescent lip of the type species.
Distribution
A genus of 16 species native to northern India, China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Taiwan,
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow plants of Hemipilia in shallow pots or bulb pans with a terrestrial mixture supplemented with limestone. Provide cool temperatures, bright light, and regular watering during active growth. After flowering reduce watering to a maintenance level until the onset of new shoots.
Literature
Seidenfaden, G. 1977. Orchid genera in Thailand V, Orchidoideae. Dansk Bot. Arkiv 31(3):6-149.
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