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Crepidium
Also called Vascular Plants, Tracheophytes
Crepidium, commonly known as 沼兰属 (zhao lan shu) or spur orchids is a genus of about three hundred species of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are evergreen, mostly terrestrial plants with short stems lying on the ground, two or more relatively large, pleated leaves and small, non-resupinate flowers with spreading sepals and petals. The genus is widely distributed in the tropics.
Species of Crepidium are found in tropical countries including China, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast asia, northern Australia, New Guinea, and various islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The greatest diversity is in New Guinea where about ninety species occur. Seventeen species, five of which are endemic occur in China. In Australia there are five endemic species in tropical Queensland and the Northern Territory. Many species grow on the floor of rainforest but some are epiphytes on mossy tree trunks.
Crepidium binabayense · Crepidium dentatum · Crepidium elegans · Fringed spur orchid · Dienia flavovirens · Yellow spur orchid · Small spur orchid · Pouched spur orchid · Crepidium quadridentatum · Crepidium quadrilobum · Crepidium ramosii · Crepidium rheedei
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