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Gomphichis
Lindley ,Gen .and Sp. Orch .Pl. (1840), 446 .
Cranichideae . II, III. Gr. gomphos (nail ; club).Referring possibly to the glandular hairs ,which , on the flowers of the type species , stand up like nails partly driven into a surface ,or to the club-shaped column.
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