Uleiorchis

Gastrodieae subtribe Gastrodiinae

Leafless saprophytes with dimorphic roots forming subterranean cylindric tuberoids surmounted by fasciculate terete roots. Inflorescences terminal, erect, few-flowered racemes. Flowers tubular, campanulate, resupinate. Sepals and petals subsimilar, fused for most of their length. Lip unlobed, without a callus. Column wingless, footless, with a broad, V-shaped stigmatic surface; pollinia apparently 2, loosely granular.

A genus of two species in northern South America and Panama.

Born, M. G., P. J. M. Maas, R. L. Dressler and L. Y. T. Westra 1999. A revision of the saprophytic orchid genera Wullschlaegelia and Uleiorchis. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 121(1):45-74.

Veyret, Y. 1980. Précisions botaniques sur l’Uleiorchis ulei (Cogn.) Handro (Orchidaceae). Adansonia, ser. 2, 20(1):141-143.