Cyrtorchis Schltr.

Epiphytic or rarely lithophytic herbs with short to long, erect or pendent stems, covered by distichous leaf-bases; roots emerging all along stem, elongate, branching. Leaves distichous, coriaceous or fleshy, flat or conduplicate, much longer than broad, unequally bilobed at apex, articulated at base to a sheathing base, decidous, leaving obvious sharp edges of leaf-bases free. Inflorescences 1–several, usually shorter than the leaves, few–many-flowered, axillary in upper part of stem; peduncle short, often covered by sterile sheathing bracts; bracts usually large. Flowers stellate, sweetly scented, white, sometimes with a greenish, pinkish or brownish spur. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, usually recurved. Lip similar, entire or very obscurely 3-lobed, ecallose, with a long tapering spur at the base; spur sigmoid or slightly incurved. Column short, fleshy; rostellum 3-lobed, pendent, outer lobes much longer than the mid-lobe, often papillate towards apex; pollinia 2; stipites 2, oblanceolate; viscidium either hyaline or comprising an indurated saddle-shaped upper part and a hyaline lower part; anther-cap elongated at apex. Fruit a 3–6-winged capsule.