Kylicanthe, Descourvieres, Stevart & Droissart, 2018

Descourvières, Pascal, Farminhão, João N. M., Dubuisson, Vincent Droissart Jean-Yves, Simo-Droissart, Murielle & Stévart, Tariq, 2018, A new genus of angraecoid orchids (Orchidaceae: Angraecinae) with highly distinctive pollinaria morphology, including three new species from tropical West and Central Africa, Phytotaxa 373 (2), pp. 99-120 : 104

Key to Kylicanthe

1. Flowers non-resupinate; spur horn-shaped; petal margins clearly erose to fringed; lip ecallose...................................... K. cornuata

- Flowers resupinate; spur not horn-shaped; petal margins entire; lip callus present...........................................................................2

2. Spur erect............................................................................................................................................................................. K. arcuata

- Spur pendent.......................................................................................................................................................................................3

3. Spur geniculate ...................................................................................................................................................................... K. bueae

- Spur incurved to sigmoid....................................................................................................................................................................4

4. Spur sigmoid, longer than 14 mm ............................................................................................................................................. K. liae

- Spur not sigmoid, shorter than 14 mm ...............................................................................................................................................5

5. Spur broadest at the mouth, somewhat laterally flattened, lip apex emarginate; stipes with erose margins.................. K. perezverae

- Spur narrowest at the mouth, more or less dorsoventrally-flattened, lip apex entire; stipes with fringed margins...........................6

6. Lip ovate with a small obtuse callus; 2 stipes connate along their apical third................................................................. K. quintasii

- Lip broadly ovate with a prominent raised callus; 2 free stipes............................................................................................. K. rohrii