Epigeneium Gagnep., Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Sér. 2, 4 (1932) 593

Subfamily: Epidendroideae

Tribe: Undetermined

Subtribe: Dendrobiinae

Synonyms: Katharinea A.D.Hawkes , Sarcopodium Lindl. , Sarcopodium Lindl.

A genus of c. 40 species; c. 28 species in Malesia.

Distribution: Northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Thailand, China, Laos, Vietnam, Taiwan, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Philippines

Seidenfaden, G. 1980. Orchid genera in Thailand IX: Flickingeria Hawkes and Epigeneium Gagnep. Dansk Bot. Ark. 34(1): 1 - 104.

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Epigeneium elongatum (Blume) Summerh., cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Sumatra Epigeneium elongatum (Blume) Summerh., cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Sumatra Epigeneium tricallosum (Ames & C.Schweinf.) J.J.Wood, cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Borneo, Sarawak
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Epigeneium sp., in situ, Borneo, Sarawak (with Coelogyne craticulaelabris Carr) Epigeneium verruciferum (J.J.Sm.) Summerh., drawing by J.J.Sm.  

last updated: 7 June 2007 by André Schuiteman

Malesian Orchid Genera