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 subfam ...

. 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 ...

'' R.Br. *'' Adenochilus'' Hook.f. *''

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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Arthrochilus ''Arthrochilus'', commonly called elbow orchids, is a genus of about fifteen species of flowering plants from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) and is found in Australia and New Guinea. The flowers are pollinated by male thynnid wasps which atte ...

'' F.Muell. *'' Burnettia'' Lindl. *''

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 ...

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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 (biology), family, Orchidaceae. Beard orchids are Terrestrial plant, terrestrial Herbaceous plant, herbs with a single leaf at the bas ...

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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 terrestrial orchids containing only one species, ''Coilochilus neocaledonicum'', endemic to New Caledonia. This monotypic genus was described by German botanist Rudolf Schlechter in 1906 and is now placed in the subt ...

'' Schltr. *'' Corybas'' Salisb. *''

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 ...

'' R.Br. *''Cyanicula'' Hopper & A.P.Brown = ''

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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 id ...

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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 endem ...

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Drakaea ''Drakaea'' is a genus of 10 species in the plant family Orchidaceae commonly known as hammer orchids. All ten species occur only in the south-west of Western Australia. Hammer orchids are characterised by an insectoid labellum that is attach ...

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Elythranthera ''Elythranthera'', commonly known as enamel orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains two species and a named hybrid, all endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. The genus was first formally d ...

'' (Endl.) A.S.George *'' Epiblema'' R.Br. *''

Ericksonella ''Ericksonella saccharata'', commonly known as sugar orchid, is the only species in the genus ''Ericksonella'' 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 ...

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Eriochilus ''Eriochilus'', commonly known as bunny orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae that is endemic to Australia. Orchids in this genus are distinguished from those in the similar ''Caladenia'' by having a glabrous ...

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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 le ...

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Glossodia ''Glossodia'', commonly known as waxlip orchids, is a genus of mostly purple orchids from Australia. The genus was first formally described in 1810 by the prolific Scottish botanist Robert Brown (botanist, born 1773), Robert Brown who publishe ...

'' R.Br. *'' Leporella'' A.S.George *'' Leptoceras'' (R.Br.) Lindl. *'' Lyperanthus'' R.Br. *'' Megastylis'' (Schltr.) Schltr. *'' Microtis'' R.Br. *''

Orthoceras ''Orthoceras'', from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (''orthós''), meaning "straight", and κέρας (''kéras''), meaning "horn", is a genus of extinct nautiloid cephalopod restricted to Middle Ordovician-aged marine limestones of the Baltic Sta ...

'' R.Br. *''Paracaleana'' Blaxell = ''

'' *'' Pheladenia'' D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. *'' Praecoxanthus'' Hopper & A.P.Brown *''

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 re ...

'' R.Br. *'' Pyrorchis'' D.L.Jones & M.A.Clements *''

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 is ...

'' R.S.Rogers *'' Rimacola'' Rupp *'' Spiculaea'' Lindl. *''

Stigmatodactylus ''Stigmatodactylus'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It has 28 currently recognized species (as of April 2025), native to China, Taiwan, Japan, the Himalayas, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, A ...

'' Maxim. ex Makino *''

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'' D.L.Jones

References

Orchidoideae tribes {{Orchidoideae-stub