Epipactis Zinn
Habit: terrestrial herbs
Rhizome: retrose or transverse or creeping or ascending
Stem: sheathing below middle, leafy
Leaf: characteristics: plicate or plicate-venous
Leaf: shape: lanceolate, elliptic
Inflorescence: type: raceme
Inflorescence: position: terminal or subterminal
Flower: other characteristics: recurved, spreading
Sepal: free or similar
Petal: shorter or smaller than sepals, similar to sepals
Labellum: divided into epichil and hypochil, sessile
Rostellum: glabrous
Pollinia: number: 4
Pollinia: other characteristics: granular-farinaceous, neither caudicle nor viscidium
Fruit:type: capsule
Fruit:shape: obovate, elliptic
Fruit: other characteristics: pendulous or ascending