Pteroceras
Pteroceras abbreviated as Ptrcrs in horticultural trade, is a genus comprised of around nineteen species
The genus is distributed from India to SE Asia, Southern China and Java, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines
The genus is distributed from India to SE Asia, Southern China and Java, Borneo, Sumatra and the Philippines
DESCRIPTION (FROM FLORA OF CHINA)Herbs, epiphytic, small, monopodial. Stems mostly short. Leaves few to ca. 10, ± distichous, flat, lorate, jointed and amplexicaul-sheathing at base, apex usually unequally bilobed. Inflorescences solitary to several, lateral or axillary, penetrating leaf sheaths, erect or pendulous, racemose, with a few to many spirally or distichously alternating flowers. Flowers usually resupinate, small. Sepals and petals free, spreading; lateral sepals often oblique and distinctly broader than petals, not adnate to column foot. Petals narrower than sepals; lip hinged to end of column foot by a movable joint, 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect, rather long; mid-lobe very short and small, fleshy, base spurred; spur or sac pointing forward in line with column foot, without interior ornaments, although front wall sometimes quite fleshy. Column short and stout, with a long foot; rostellum small, 2-lobed; pollinia 2, waxy, subglobose, cleft, attached by a common suboblong stipe to a ± triangular viscidium.
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