1648.030 Graphorkis Thouars

Epiphytic, sympodial herbs. Pseudobulbs clustered, with several nodes, partly covered by fibrous leaf bases; roots of two types, some attached to substrate and some aerial, erect. Leaves developing after flowering, petiolate, narrowly elliptic, acute or acuminate, thin-textured, plicate. Inflorescence paniculate, many-flowered; flowers resupinate, yellowish, marked with brown or purple. Sepals and petals free; lip 3-lobed, spurred at the base; disk with 2 keels. Column with hirsute basal auricles; pollinia 2, waxy, sessile.

Worldwide: Five species, one in tropical Africa and four in Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands.

DRC: 1 taxon.