Brachycorythis

Terrestrial herbs, with undivided or palmate root tubers. Leaves cauline, densely imbricate, gradually decreasing in density and size upwards. Inflorescence a lax or dense raceme; flowers pink, purple, yellow or brown; bracts leafy, ovate to lanceolate. Sepals free; median one and petals often coherent, laterals ascending or spreading and recurved. Petals usually oblique and similar to median sepal, at base often adnate to gynostemium. Lip with saccate or spur-like lower part and entire or 2- or 3-lobed upper part. Gynostemium: anther erect, thecae parallel and adjacent, anther canals 0; pollinia 2, sectile, with short caudicles attached to separate viscidia; stigma fleshy and pad-like or concave. Capsule narrowly oblong. x= 21.