Odontochilus

Odontochilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Asparagales
Family:	Orchidaceae
Subfamily:	Orchidoideae
Tribe:	Cranichideae
Subtribe:	Goodyerinae
Genus:	Odontochilus Blume, 1859
Species
See text.

Odontochilus is a small genus from the orchid family (Orchidaceae). Sometimes the genus Pristiglottis Cretz. & J. J. Sm is included in this genus.

These terrestrial, mycoparasitic orchids occur from S. Japan to W. & C. Malesia

Species

• Odontochilus acalcaratus (Aver.) Ormerod (2002). (South Vietnam)
• Odontochilus asraoa (J.Joseph & Abbar.) Ormerod (2005) (formerly: Evrardia asraoa) (India, Bhutan).
• Odontochilus duplex (Holttum) Ormerod (2005) (formerly ]: Anoectochilus duplex) (Thailand, Malaysia)
• Odontochilus hatusimanus Ohwi & T.Koyama (1957). (Japan) (Thought to be extinct, but rediscovered on Kyushu; Fukuoka & Kagoshima)
• Odontochilus nanlingensis (L.P.Siu & K.Y.Lang) Ormerod (2003). (China) (Basionym: Anoectochilus nanlingensis L. P. Siu & K. Y. Lang)
• Odontochilus poilanei (Gagnep.) Ormerod (2002). (Japan to SE Asia)
• Odontochilus reniformis (Hook.f.) Ormerod (1998). (Malaysia)
• Odontochilus saprophyticus (Aver.) Ormerod (2003). (South Vietnam)
• Odontochilus umbrosus (Aver.) Ormerod (2002). (Vietnam)

References

• Omerod P. (2003). "Orchidaceous additions to the floras of China and Vietnam". Taiwania 48 (3): 139–146. 
• Ormerod Paul (2005). "Notulae Goodyerinae (II)". Taiwania 50 (1): 1–10. 
• Royal Botanical gardens, Kew (January 2006). "new species". Orchid Research Newsletter 47.