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Plants pendent in long festoons, flowering to 300 cm. Stems elongate. Leaves 4--8, 2-ranked, often twisted or contorted, gray to silver-gray, 1.5--3 ´ 0.1--0.2 cm, densely grayish-scaly; sheath pale, narrowly elliptic, not inflated, not forming pseudobulb, 0.2--0.4 cm wide; blade filiform, succulent, margins involute to nearly tubular, apex acute. Inflorescences: scape concealed within leaf sheath, appearing scapeless, pendent with shoot, ± 1 mm diam. Floral bracts enveloping flower, erect, green, broad (covering all or most of rachis, rachis not visible at anthesis), ovate, not keeled, 0.4--0.5 cm, thin-leathery, apex acute, surfaces densely grayish-scaly, venation even to slight. Flowers 1, inconspicuous, apparently sessile; sepals free, ovate, not keeled, 0.6--0.7 cm, thin, veined, apex acute, surfaces glabrous; corolla spreading, petals spreading, yellow-green, elliptic, to 1 cm; stamens included; stigma included, simple-erect. Fruits to 2.5 cm.
Growing pendent from trees in slen-der branching strands up to 8 m. long. Roots absent. Stem less than 1 mm. thick, sympodial, the internodes 3-6 cm. long with only the extreme base covered by the leaves, curved. Leaves distichous, 5 cm. long, densely lepidote; sheaths elliptic, 8 mm. long; blades fili-form, less than 1 mm. thick. Scape lacking. Inflorescence reduced to a single flower. Floral bract shorter than the sepals, ovate, lepidote. Sepals nar-rowly ovate, acute, to 7 mm. long, thin, nerved, glabrous, equally short-connate. Petals narrow, 9-11 mm. long, pale green or blue. Stamens deeply included, ex-ceeding the pistil. Capsule cylindric, to 25 mm. long.
Pendent, much-branched, usually rootless epiphyte to 8 m long. Stems sympodial, c. 1 mm diam., spirally twisting. Leaves distichous, linear-subulate, stem-clasping, 3-5 per branch, 25-50 mm long, c. 1 mm diam., densely lepidote, ash grey. Flowers solitary, sessile, c. 10 mm long, 5-6 mm diam.; bract sheathing, shorter than sepals. Sepals connate, 7 mm long; posterior sepals keeled. Petals narrow, obtuse or acute, 9-11 mm long, reflexed at anthesis. Stamens 8 mm long; filaments filiform; anthers 0.5-1 mm long. Ovary 1.5-2 mm long; style 1.5-2 mm long. Capsule to 25 mm long. Seeds 2-3 mm long; appendage to 25 mm long, white.
Plants rootless, pendent from trees, consisting of slender, wiry, branching stems to 5 m, bearing numerous scattered, densely cinereous-lepidote, filiform lvs 2–5 cm; infl reduced to a single subsessile fl terminating very short axillary branches; sep narrowly ovate, to 7 mm; pet narrow, recurved, green fading yellowish, 1 cm; fr cylindric, 2.5 cm; 2n=32. Trop. Amer., n. on the coastal plain to Va. and historically to s. Md.
