Species +/- 20, +/- cosmopolitan in tropics and subtropics; sthn Afr. 1: Burmannia madagascariensis Mart., North-West, kloofs of Magaliesberg and in KwaZulu-Natal.
Small, fleshy, saprophytic perennial herbs, usually with a single stem; rhizome cylindric, each node with clusters of tuberous bulbils, each with a filamentous root. Leaves alternate, cauline, small, scale-like, sparse. Flowers irregular, relatively large, in a simple or bifurcate, 1
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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith