Liparis

Terrestrial or sometimes low-level epiphytic herbs, with or without pseudobulbs. Leaves 2-few, sheathing at base. Inflorescences terminal, lax or dense racemes; flowers usually yellowish green or purplish; bracts small. Sepals spreading, free or laterals +/- connate at base. Petals very narrow. Lip usually deflexed or recurved above erect base, simple or bilobed, margins entire or dentate, often bituberculate at base. Gynostemium usually long and slender, incurved, often winged at apex; anther operculate; pollinia 4. Capsule cylindrical to ellipsoid. x= 10 (aneuploids, polyploidy).