Ypsilopus

Summerh.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Erect or pendent epiphytic monopodial herbs with short stems, without pseudobulbs. Leaves stiff, linear, arranged in two rows. Inflorescences lateral, laxly few- to many-flowered; flowers white or pale green; bracts amplexicaul, small. Sepals and petals free, subsimilar, spreading. Lip entire or obscurely 3-lobed, long-spurred at base. Gynostemium short, terete; anther operculate; pollinia 2, subglobose, stipe solitary, Y-shaped, viscidium large, reniform or oblong; rostellum 2-lobed.
Distribution: 
Species 4, from East Africa to sthn Afr.; 1 in subtropical parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape: Ypsilopus erectus (P.J.Cribb) P.J.Cribb & J.L.Stewart.
Classification: 
ORCHIDACEAE

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