Diurideae is a tribe of orchid in the subfamily

Orchidoideae The Orchidoideae, or the orchidoid orchids, are a subfamily of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) that contains around 3630 species. Species typically have a single (monandrous), fertile anther which is erect and basitonic. Description The subf ...

. It contains about 40 accepted genera. , its division into subtribes remained unclear.

Genera

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Acianthus ''Acianthus'', commonly known as mosquito orchids, is a genus of about twelve species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Mosquito orchids are terrestrial herbs with a single, heart-shaped, usually ground-hugging leaf and one to many sma ...

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Adenochilus ''Adenochilus'', commonly known as gnome orchids is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae, one endemic to New Zealand and the other to Australia. Both species have a long, horizontal, underground rhizome with ...

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Aporostylis ''Aporostylis'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. At the present time, only one species is known: ''Aporostylis bifolia'', native to New Zealand (including the Chatham Islands and the Antipodes Islands). File:A ...

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Burnettia ''Burnettia cuneata'', commonly known as the lizard orchid, is the only species of the flowering plant genus ''Burnettia'' in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is a leafless terrestrial, mycotrophic herb with one or two leaf-like bracts and up ...

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Caladenia ''Caladenia'', commonly known as spider orchids, is a genus of 350 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Spider orchids are terrestrial herbs with a single hairy leaf and a hairy stem. The labellum is fringed or toothed in most s ...

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Caleana ''Caleana'', commonly known as duck orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae that is found in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian species are found in all states but have not been recorded in the Northern ...

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Calochilus ''Calochilus'', commonly known as beard orchids, is a genus of about 30 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Beard orchids are terrestrial herbs with a single leaf at the base of the plant, or no leaves. Their most striking featu ...

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Chiloglottis ''Chiloglottis'', commonly known as wasp orchids, ant orchids or bird orchids, is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is found in eastern Australia and New Zealand. Wasp orchids are terrestrial ...

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Coilochilus ''Coilochilus'' is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, ''Coilochilus neocaledonicum'', endemic to New Caledonia. Its closest relative is ''Cryptostylis'',Kores, P. J., M. Molvray, P. ...

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Cryptostylis ''Cryptostylis'', commonly known as tongue orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family. Tongue orchids are terrestrial herbs with one to a few stalked leaves at the base of the flowering stem, or leafless. One to a few dull co ...

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Cyrtostylis ''Cyrtostylis'', commonly known as gnat orchids, is a genus of five or six species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is native to Australia and New Zealand. Cyrtostylis orchids often form dense colonies of genetically i ...

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Diuris ''Diuris'', commonly known as donkey orchids, bee orchids, nanny goat orchids or pansy orchids, is a genus of more than sixty species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia, apart from one species ende ...

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Ericksonella ''Caladenia saccharata'', commonly known as sugar orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has a single leaf and a single flower with three white sepals an ...

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Genoplesium ''Genoplesium'' commonly known as midge orchids, is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is found in Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia. Midge orchids are terrestrial herbs with a single lea ...

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Leporella ''Leporella fimbriata'', commonly known as ''hare orchid'' or ''fringed hare orchid'', is the only species in the flowering plant genus ''Leporella'' in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to the southern Australia mainland. It is rela ...

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Leptoceras ''Leptoceras menziesii'', commonly known as rabbit orchid, is a plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and the only member of the genus ''Leptoceras''. It is a slender plant, usually found in large colonies and which only flowers after fire. Th ...

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Lyperanthus ''Lyperanthus'', commonly known as beak orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae, that is endemic to Australia. There are two species, one in Western Australia and the other in four eastern Australian states, di ...

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Megastylis ''Megastylis'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 6 known species, all native to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. #''Megastylis gigas'' (Rchb.f.) Schltr. #'' Megastylis latilabris'' (Schltr.) Schltr. #'' Me ...

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Orthoceras ''Orthoceras'' ("straight horn") is a genus of extinct nautiloid cephalopod restricted to Middle Ordovician-aged marine limestones of the Baltic States and Sweden. This genus is sometimes called ''Orthoceratites''. Note it is sometimes misspell ...

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Praecoxanthus ''Praecoxanthus aphyllus'', commonly known as leafless orchid, is the only species of the flowering plant genus ''Praecoxanthus'' in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. Plants in flower lack a tr ...

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Prasophyllum ''Prasophyllum'', commonly known as leek orchids, is a genus of about 140 species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is found in Australia and New Zealand. The Australian species are found in all states but have not been r ...

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Pyrorchis ''Pyrorchis'', commonly known as beak orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia. It contains two species which were previously included in the genus ''Lyperanthus'', also known as beak ...

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Rhizanthella ''Rhizanthella'', commonly known as underground orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia. All are leafless, living underground in symbiosis with mycorrhizal fungi. The inflorescence i ...

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Rimacola ''Rimacola elliptica'', commonly known as the green rock orchid or green beaks, is the only species of plant in the orchid genus ''Rimacola'' and is endemic to New South Wales. It is an evergreen species which grows in clumps in sandstone cracks ...

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Spiculaea ''Spiculaea'' is a genus of plants defined by a single species, ''Spiculaea ciliata'', commonly known as elbow orchid, and allied to the family Orchidaceae. Endemic to the south-west of Western Australia, the species is unusual in a number of r ...

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Stigmatodactylus ''Stigmatodactylus'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has thirteen currently recognized species (as of November 2016), native to China, Taiwan, Japan, the Himalayas, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, N ...

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Thelymitra ''Thelymitra'', commonly known as sun orchids, is a genus of more than 100 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Unlike most other orchids, sun orchids lack a highly modified labellum and all three petals are similar in size, shap ...

'' J.R.Forst. & G.Forst. *'' Townsonia'' Cheeseman *''

Waireia ''Waireia'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. ...

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Orchidoideae tribes {{Orchidoideae-stub