Nervilia
 Nervilia is a genus of orchid with about 65 species 6 in Australia with 2 or 3 endemic and the rest widely distributed in tropical Asia with 16 in India and 5 in southern Africa.There are flowering and non-flowering varieties - the non-flowering plants have only a single leaf and are either ground-hugging or erect. The flowering varieties have a fleshy flower stem with only one or a few flowers and a leaf which arises later at the base of the dying flower stem.