Wullschlaegelia
(pronounced: vull-schlay-GEL-ee-ah)
Classification
Gastrodieae subtribe Wullschlaegeliinae
Overview
Leafless saprophytes arising from a cluster of slender, fibrous tuberoids. Stems slender, simple, with minute sheaths. Inflorescences terminal, unbranched racemes. Flowers minute, inconspicuous, nonresupinate, the sepals and petals connivent, the lateral sepals extended into a spur. Lip unlobed to obscurely 3-lobed, concave. Column very short, stout: pollinia 2, granular.
Distribution
A genus of two species widely distributed in the Neotropics from Guatemala to Paraguay and Bolivia and the West Indies.
Care and Culture Card
See basic growing conditions and care information below.
Wullschlaegelias are obligate saprophytes and cannot be cultivated.
Literature
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.
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