Orthochilus
''Orthochilus'' is a genus of orchids that consists of at least 34 species, most of which are native to Africa and Madagascar with a few species in tropical and subtropical America. The genus was first formally described in 1850 by the French botanist Achille Richard, who cited an earlier suggestion by the German botanist Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter. Richard recognized a single species, '' Orthochilus abyssinicus'', and noted that the genus shared many features with the closely related genus ''Eulophia'', but differed from it in the form of the pollen masses and caudicule, a stalk to which the pollen masses are attached. The genus ''Orthochilus'' has often been viewed as a synonym of the larger genus ''Eulophia'' by many botanists, but a recent molecular phylogeny published in 2014 revealed that ''Eulophia'', as traditionally circumscribed, was paraphyletic unless ''Orthochilus'' was recognized as a separate genus.Martos, F., S.D. Johnson, C.I. Peter, and B. Bytebier. ...
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