Malaxideae is an orchid tribe in the subfamily

Epidendroideae Epidendroideae is a subfamily of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Epidendroideae is larger than all the other orchid subfamilies together, comprising more than 15,000 species in 576 genera. Most epidendroid orchids are tropical epiphytes ...

Taxonomy

In their 2015 review of

Orchidaceae Orchids are plants that belong to the family (biology), family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan plants that ...

taxonomy, Chase and colleagues divided the tribe into two subtribes,

Malaxidinae Malaxidinae is an subtribe of Orchidaceae, orchids in the tribe Malaxideae of the subfamily Epidendroideae. Genera Included genera: * ''Alatiliparis'' * ''Crepidium'' * ''Crossoglossa'' * ''Crossoliparis'' * ''Dienia'' * ''Hammarbya'' * ''Hippeo ...

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Dendrobiinae Dendrobieae is a tribe in the subfamily Epidendroideae, in the family Orchidaceae. The ''Dendrobieae'' are mostly tropical, epiphytic orchids which contain pseudobulbs. The tribe contains two genera, ''Dendrobium'' and ''Bulbophyllum'', which ar ...

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Alatiliparis ''Alatiliparis'' is a genus of orchids native to Java and Sumatra in Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans ...

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Crepidium ''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 ...

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Crossoglossa ''Crossoglossa'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 26 currently recognized species native to Central America and South America, from Nicaragua to Bolivia. #'' Crossoglossa acuminatissima'' Nog.-Sav. ...

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

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Dienia ''Dienia'', commonly called snout orchids, is a genus of six species of orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are evergreen, mostly terrestrial plants with a fleshy, above ground stem, large, pleated leaves and small, non- resu ...

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Hammarbya ''Hammarbya paludosa'' (or ''Malaxis paludosa'') is a small orchid commonly known as bog orchid, bog adder's-mouth or bog adder's-mouth orchid. It grows in bogs in temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Taxonomy It was or ...

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Hippeophyllum ''Hippeophyllum'' is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is native to New Guinea, insular Southeast Asia, and the Solomon Islands. #'' Hippeophyllum alboviride'' J.J.Sm. - New Guinea #'' Hippeophyllum biakenae'' J ...

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Malaxis ''Malaxis'', commonly called adder's mouth, is a genus of terrestrial and semiepiphytic orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colour ...

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Oberonia ''Oberonia'', commonly known as fairy orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are epiphytic or lithophytic plants with the leaves arranged fan-like, overlapping at the base and spreading near the ...

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Oberonioides ''Oberonioides'' is a genus of orchids native to China and Thailand. Only two species are known: *'' Oberonioides oberoniiflora'' (Seidenf.) Szlach. - Thailand *'' Oberonioides pusillus'' (Rolfe) Marg. & Szlach. - Jiangxi, Fujian, Taiwan The gen ...

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Orestias Orestias (), later refounded by Hadrian as Adrianople (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), was an ancient Greek settlement next to the Evros river in Thrace, near or at the site of present-day Edirne, and close to the current border between Turk ...

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Stichorkis ''Stichorkis'' is a genus of orchids native to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and various islands of the Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the ...

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Tamayorkis ''Tamayorkis'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae. Its native range is from Arizona and New Mexico to Texas, USA and also Mexico and Guatemala in South America. The genus name of ''Tamayorkis'' is in honour of ...

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Dendrobium ''Dendrobium'' is a genus of mostly Epiphyte, epiphytic and Lithophyte, lithophytic orchids in the Family (biology), family Orchidaceae. It is a very large genus, containing more than 1,800 species that are found in diverse habitats throughout m ...

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Bulbophyllum ''Bulbophyllum'' is a genus of mostly Epiphyte, epiphytic and Lithophyte, lithophytic orchids in the Family (biology), family Orchidaceae. It is the largest genus in the orchid family and one of the List of the largest genera of flowering plants, ...

Risleya ''Risleya'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. The sole species is ''Risleya atropurpurea''. It is native to the Himalayas of Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Bhutan, India, Sikkim, Assam and Myanmar. It was prev ...

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Collabieae Collabieae is a tribe of orchids in the subfamily Epidendroideae. See also * Taxonomy of the Orchidaceae The taxonomy of the Orchidaceae ( orchid family) has evolved slowly during the last 250 years, starting with Carl Linnaeus who in 1753 ...

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Epidendroideae tribes {{Epidendroideae-stub