Common Names in English: Zygopetalum Blue Eyes Orchid Herbs or
rarely vines , rarely annual , strongly mycotrophic, epiphytic,
terrestrial , lithophytic, or rarely aquatic , usually green and
photosynthetic, some without chlorophyll and saprophytic
subterranean or aerial or stolonoid, usually with spongy ,
multilayered velamen. Stems erect or pendent or modified into
creeping or sympodially or monopodially branched, delicate to
stout, or thickened as corms or pseudobulbs , or greatly
reduced, sometimes proliferous (especially diverse in sympodial
orchids) . Leaves solitary, several, or reduced to scales ,
basal or cauline, alternate, distichous, or sometimes opposite
or whorled , either convolute or duplicate , simple, sessile or
petiolate ; stipules absent; blade or not, plicate , triangular,
or laterally flattened, margins entire. Inflorescences terminal
, spikes, panicles, or rarely cymose , erect or variously
pendent, 1 many-flowered, lax or dense, flowering successively
or simultaneously. Flowers bisexua