Lepidogyne
(pronounced: leh-pid-oh-GYNE-nee)
Classification
Cranichideae subtribe Goodyerinae
Overview
Robust terrestrials. Stems trailing. Leaves clustered at the base. Inflorescences terminal, erect, densely many-flowered spicate racemes, the floral bracts prominent. Flowers tubular, translucent. Sepals and petals free, dissimilar, the dorsal sepal and petals appressed forming a hood over the column, the lateral sepals spreading-recurved. Lip three-lobed, subsaccate at the base. Column stout at the base with an elongate rostellum, with one stigma; pollinia 2, elongate, attached by long stalk-like caudicles to a common linear-filiform viscidium.
Distribution
A genus of one to three species ranging from Peninsular Malaysia and Indonesia (Java) to New Guinea.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Grow Lepidogyne in pots of rich terrestrial mixture with a high moisture retaining component. Provide warm to intermediate temperatures, medium light levels, and steady watering throughout the year.
Literature
Howcroft, N. H. S. 1989. Contributions to the orchid flora of the Araucaria forest in New Guinea, 6. Lepidogyne sceptrum Schlechter. Orchadian 9(7):154-157.
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