English: Crown orchid.
Chinese: Zhu jing lan shuis.
Genus: 30 species.
Region: southern China, Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Indochina, Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Northern Territory of Australia
Habitat: in deep shade; in evergreen monsoon forests.
BotanyHerbs; evergreen terrestrial orchids; mycotrophic; forms small clumps.
Stem: thin, wiry.
Leaves: two or more; tough, pleated; lance-shaped to egg-shaped.
Inflorescence: flowering spike at the top of the stem, bearing crowded flowers.
Flowers: white, greenish or brown; resupinate; sepals and petals free from each other, or with the lateral sepals joined and surrounding the base of the labellum; labellum is not lobed but has a pouch or spur at its base.