1861 is a section of subgenus Epidendrum subg.

Polycladia by bearing inflorescences that are racemes, not panicles.

Holochila exhibit slender stems covered with close imbricating sheaths which do not swell to form pseudobulbs, and terminal inflorescences covered at the base with close imbricating sheaths but without spathes.

When he published the section, Reichenbach included fourteen species.

[3] Kew[4] recognizes thirteen of these as separate species.