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Porphyrostachys
Reichenbach fil., in Xen .Orch .1(1854),18.
Cranichideae . III. Gr. porphyra (purple), stachys (ear of wheat). Alluding probably to the fanciful resemblance of the inflorescence , with dense reddish flowers, to a large ear of wheat.
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