Uleiorchis
(pronounced: yew-lee-OR-kiss)
Classification
Gastrodieae subtribe Gastrodiinae
Overview
Leafless saprophytes with dimorphic roots forming subterranean cylindric tuberoids surmounted by fasciculate terete roots. Inflorescences terminal, erect, few-flowered racemes. Flowers tubular, campanulate, resupinate. Sepals and petals subsimilar, fused for most of their length. Lip unlobed, without a callus. Column wingless, footless, with a broad, V-shaped stigmatic surface; pollinia apparently 2, loosely granular.
Distribution
A genus of two species in northern South America and Panama.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Uleiorchis is an obligate saprophyte and cannot be cultivated.
Literature
Born, M. G., P. J. M. Maas, R. L. Dressler and L. Y. T. Westra 1999. A revision of the saprophytic orchid genera Wullschlaegelia and Uleiorchis. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 121(1):45-74. Veyret, Y. 1980. Précisions botaniques sur l’Uleiorchis ulei (Cogn.) Handro (Orchidaceae). Adansonia, ser. 2, 20(1):141-143.
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