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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Spilotantha''
| image = Spilotantha_ferrusii.jpeg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''Spilotantha ferrusii''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Liliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asparagales]]
| familia = [[Orchidaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Epidendroideae]]
| tribus = [[Epidendreae]]
| subtribus = [[Pleurothallidinae]]
| genus = '''''Spilotantha'''''
| genus_authority = [[Luer]]
| subdivision_ranks = [[Species]]
| subdivision =
See text.
}}

'''''Spilotantha''''' Luer, is a [[genus]] of [[orchid]]s containing approximately 35 species originating from [[neotropical]] locales. Most members of this genus used to reside in the [[Masdevallia]] subgenus Amanda. With the split from Masdevallia in 2006, this genus is not yet fully accepted in all botanical forums.

== Description ==
Characteristics that distinguish this genus from Masdevallia are:
* in large or small plants the ramicauls are shorter than the coriaceous leaves
* an erect raceme with keeled or crested ovaries usually possessing inflated floral bracts
* species exhibit a series of simultaneously blooming flowers borne by a peduncle with a round cross-section
* sepals are usually long-tailed and variously connected into a shallow cup or arching cylindrical tube
* petals are callous on the lower half and are often denticulate along the margins
* the lip is usually divided by marginal folds

== Species ==
*''[[Spilotantha abbreviata]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha alvaroi]]'' (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha amanda]]'' (Rehb.f. & Warsz.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha anceps]]'' (Luer & Hirtz) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha bulbophyllopsis]]'' (Kraenzl.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha caloptera]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha chaetostoma]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha corazonica]]'' (Schltr.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha dalstroemii]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha delphina]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha densiflora]]'' (Schltr.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha dimorphtricha]]'' (Luer & Hirtz) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha ferrusii]] Luer
*''[[Spilotantha graminea]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha hydrae]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha leathersii]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha lehmannii]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha leptoura]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha melanopus]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha microsiphon]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha ova-avis]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha pachyura]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha polysticta]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha porphyrea]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha pozoi]]'' (Königer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha pucherrima]]'' (Luer & Andreetta) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha rafaeliana]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha segrex]]'' (Luer & Hirtz) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha sertula]]'' (Luer & Andreetta) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha staaliana]]'' (Luer & Hirtz) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha superbiens]]'' (Luer & Hirtz) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha tentaculata]]'' (Luer) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha tridens]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha vittatula]]'' (Luer & R.Escobar) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha xanthodactyla]]'' (Rchb.f.) Luer
*''[[Spilotantha zygia]]'' (Luer & Malo) Luer

==References==
*[http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html Missouri Botanical Garden w<sup>3</sup> TROPICOS]

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