Octarrhena
Octarrhena, commonly known as grub orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are small, orchids with short stems, thin roots, short, thick, fleshy leaves arranged in two ranks and tiny flowers. The labellum is rigidly attached to the base of the column. There are about fifty species native to areas from Sri Lanka and Malesia to the Western Pacific.
| Octarrhena | |
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| Illustration of Phreatia nana (now known as Octarrhena parvula) from Hooker's Icones Plantarum | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Orchidaceae |
| Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
| Tribe: | Podochileae |
| Subtribe: | Thelasiinae |
| Genus: | Octarrhena Thwaites |
| Type species | |
| Octarrhena parvula Thwaites | |
| Synonyms | |
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