J. RENZ

Small plants with slightly elongated rhizomes. Stem with 2-3 shortly petioled leaves. Inflorescence ± loosely many-flowered, subsecund. Flowers small. Bracts as long as ovary. Perianth segments subequal. Labellum entire, with 3-toothed or blunt apex, shortly spurred. Column very short, anther-cells parallel or slightly diverging; pollinia sectile, granulose, with very short caudicles and small viscid-glands; no anther canals; staminode filiform erect, ± capitate, as long as or slightly exceeding the column, attached on either side of the anther; stigmas confluent, cushion-like (not on processes).

A Himalayan genus with 2 species. One species occuring in Northwestern Himalaya, the other in Sikkim-Bhutan.

Lower Taxon

• Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.

Related Synonym(s):

• Cheirostylis griffithii auct. non Lindl. (1857) = Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.
• Habenaria (sect. Dithrix) decipiens Hook.f. = Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.
• Habenaria griffithii Hook.f. = Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.
• Herminium spec. Griffith = Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.
• Orchidea herminioides Griffith = Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.
• Peristylus sp. Aitch. = Diphylax griffithii (Hook.f.) Kranzl.