Phaius Loureiro
Habit: terrestrial herbs
Pseudobulb: noded, with sheath
Leaf: characteristics: plicate or plicate-venous, sheathing or noding at base, petiolate
Leaf: position: alternate
Inflorescence: type: raceme
Scape: arising laterally on pseudobulb or base of short stem or nodes of rhizome
Petal: narrower than sepals or as long as dorsal sepal
Labellum: with sac or spur or auricles at base, 3-lobed, adnate to column, not lobed
Column: with wing or triangular-falcate or arm-shaped or subulate appendages
Anther: 2-loculed
Pollinia: number: 8