Discyphinae Salazar & van den Berg

Salazar, Gerardo A., Berg, Cássio Van Den & Popovkin, Alex, 2014, Phylogenetic relationships of Discyphus scopulariae (Orchidaceae, Cranichideae) inferred from plastid and nuclear DNA sequences: evidence supporting recognition of a new subtribe, Discyphinae, Phytotaxa 173 (2), pp. 127-139 : 136

Discyphinae Salazar & van den Berg , subtribus nova.

Type: Discyphus scopulariae ( Reichenbach 1854a: 11) Schlechter (1919: 417)

Acaulescent, deciduous geophytes with fasciculate roots; a single orbicular, cordate leaf lying on the substrate and clasping the base of the scape; inflorescence densely glandular-pubescent; flowers campanulate, resupinate, petals free from the dorsal sepal but adnate to the proximal half of the column, labellum free (i.e., its margins not adhering to the sides of the column); column provided with two separate receptive areas, those concave and with raised margins (“cup-shaped”).

This subtribe consists of a monospecific genus distributed from Panama, northern Venezuela and Trinidad to eastern Brazil ( Szlachetko 1992, Salazar 2003b).