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Manniella is a small genus of terrestrial orchids with two species from West Africa, most often seen in botanical collections rather than as common houseplants. Little is documented about cultivation, so growing it successfully depends on approximating its native forest-floor conditions.
Manniella is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae) belonging to the subfamily Orchidoideae.
It consists of two species: the type species Manniella gustavi Rchb.f. and Manniella cypripedioides, Salazar & al., both from West Africa. Because of its phylogenetic position as the sister of Neotropical subtribes Cranichidinae s.l. and Spiranthinae, its status as the sole genus in the subtribe Manniellineae is justified on evolutionary grounds.
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