Cranichideae genera

Pachyplectron is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The genus contains three species, all endemic to New Caledonia. The genus is related to Odontochilus.

Vrydagzynea, commonly called tonsil orchids, is a genus of orchids in the tribe Cranichideae. About forty five species of Vrydagzynea have been formally described. They are native to India, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Melanesia and Polynesia. A single species in Australia is possibly extinct. They have thinly textured, stalked leaves and small, dull-coloured resupinate flowers with the dorsal sepal and petals overlapping to form a hood over the column.

Helonoma is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It includes 4 known species, all native to South America.

Lyroglossa is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two known species, native to the American tropics:

Pseudocentrum is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to Central America, the West Indies and northern South America.

Gonatostylis is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only two species, both endemic to New Caledonia.

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Aracamunia liesneri, collected by R. Liesner and F. Delascia in 1987, is the sole species in the orchid genus Aracamunia. It is the only orchid strongly suspected of being carnivorous. A. liesneri bears peculiar, rigid, tongue-like structures with apparently sticky tips emanating from the bases of its leaves.

Microthelys is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Its species are native to Mexico, Central America and Ecuador.

Rhomboda, commonly known as velvet jewel orchids, is a genus of about twenty species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are mostly terrestrial herbs with a fleshy, creeping rhizome and a loose rosette of green to maroon coloured leaves. Small resupinate or partly resupinate, dull coloured flowers are borne on a hairy flowering stem. The dorsal sepal and petals overlap and form a hood over the column and there is a deep pouch at the base of the labellum. They are found in tropical regions from northern India through Southeast Asia, China, Japan to Austral

Svenkoeltzia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains three known species, all endemic to Mexico.

Veyretia is a genus of terrestrial orchids native to South America and Trinidad.

Thelyschista is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The sole species is Thelyschista ghillanyi, endemic to the Bahia region of Brazil.

Nothostele is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two known species, both endemic to Brazil.

Lepidogyne is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Lepidogyne longifolia, native to New Guinea and to Southeast Asia (Philippines, Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra).

Papuaea is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The sole species is Papuaea reticulata.

Stephanothelys is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, endemic to South America.

Dossinia is a monotypic genus of orchids containing only the species Dossinia marmorata. It is endemic to Borneo.

Solenocentrum is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to southeastern Central America and northwestern South America, from Costa Rica to Bolivia.

Herpysma is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Herpysma longicaulis, native to Southeast Asia (Yunnan, Bhutan, Assam, Sumatra, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Vietnam).

Galeoglossum is a genus of orchids native to Mexico and Guatemala.

Degranvillea is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. At the present time, there is only one known species, Degranvillea dermaptera, endemic to French Guiana

Cybebus is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Cybebus grandis, native to Colombia and Ecuador

Danhatchia is a genus of terrestrial orchids, lacking chlorophyll and obtaining nutrients from fungi in the soil (mycoheterotrophy). Three species are known, Danhatchia australis, native to New Zealand (both main islands) and to New South Wales, and Danhatchia copelandii and Danhatchia novaehollandiae, both native to New South Wales in Australia.

Fuertesiella is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Fuertesiella pterichoides, native to Cuba and to the Dominican Republic.

Stalkya is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The sole species is Stalkya muscicola, endemic to the Mérida region of Venezuela. It is named after the orchidologist G. C. K. "Stalky" Dunsterville.

Aenhenrya is a monotypic genus of terrestrial orchids that spread by means of underground rhizomes. Only one species is known, Aenhenrya rotundifolia, a very rare plant and endemic to southern India (within Kerala and Tamil Nadu).

Pseudogoodyera is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains one known species, Pseudogoodyera wrightii, native to San Luis Potosí, Cuba, Guatemala and Belize.

Cotylolabium is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Cotylolabium lutzii, endemic to Brazil.

Halleorchis is a genus of terrestrial orchids containing only one species, Halleorchis aspidogynoides, which is an endangered species native to Central Africa.

Bidoupia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae.

Meliorchis caribea is an extinct, early to middle Miocene orchid known only from a packet of pollen attached to the wing of a stingless bee, Proplebeia dominicana, trapped in Dominican amber. It was the first fossil orchid ever described, and allowed for a revised estimate of the time of origin of the Orchidaceae to the Mesozoic. Morphology of the pollinium suggests that M. caribea is closely related to the modern genus Ligeophila.