Yoania
(pronounced: yoh-AN-ee-ah)
Classification
Calypsoeae
Overview
Succulent leafless saprophytes from rootless subterranean rhizomes. Stems erect, rarely branched, with several short, fleshy bracts. Inflorescences terminal, few-flowered racemes. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, the petals and dorsal sepal sometimes forming a hood. Lip sessile on a short column foot, subsaccate. Column stout, winged, with one apical tooth to each side of the anther; pollinia 4, in two pairs, sessile on a large viscidium.
Distribution
A genus of two or three species found from India to Japan. A previously disjunct species from New Zealand is now recognized as Danhatchia Garay and Christenson.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Yoania is an obligate saprophyte and cannot be cultivated.
Literature
Finet, A. 1896. Sur le genre Yoania Maximowicz. Bull. Soc. Bot. France, ser. 3, 3:601-603.
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