Angraecinae is a subtribe in the Orchidaceae

Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae, commonly referred to as the orchid family, is a morphologically diverse and widespread family of monocots in the order Asparagales. Along with the Asteraceae, it is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species,...

 family. The subtribe consists of approximately 18 nautural genera and about 360 species. The type genus

Type genus

In biological classification, a type genus is a representative genus, as with regard to a biological family. The term and concept is used much more often and much more formally in zoology than it is in botany, and the definition is dependent on the nomenclatural Code that applies:* In zoological...

 is Angraecum

Angraecum

The genus Angraecum, abbreviated as Angcm in horticultural trade, common name Angrek or Comet Orchid, contains about 220 species, some of them among most magnificent of all orchids. They are quite varied vegetatively and florally and are adapted to dry tropical woodland habitat and have quite...

. Most of the genera are endemic to Africa, Madagascar and other Indian Ocean Islands, a few genera can also be found in the Americas.

Genera

Recent scholarship has led to proposed reorganization of this subtribe. The propsed change would have Campylocentrum

Campylocentrum

Campylocentrum is a genus of rare orchids native to the West Indies, Central America and South America.-List of species:#Campylocentrum aciculatum Cogn., Fl. Bras. 3: 516 ....

 and all leafless neotropical genera transferred to a new subtribe under tribe Vandeae

Vandeae

The Vandeae is a large monophyletic tribe within the family of orchids.This tribe contains 1,700 - 2,000 species in more than 150 genera. The classification of taxa within this tribe is still largely based on floral morphology...

 to be called Campylocentrinae. That would leave only the Palaeotropical

Palaeotropical

In biology, palaeotropical refers to geographical occurrence. For a distribution to be palaeotropical a taxon must occur in tropical regions on both continents in the Old World, i.e. in Africa and Asia....

 genera in the Angraecum

Angraecum

The genus Angraecum, abbreviated as Angcm in horticultural trade, common name Angrek or Comet Orchid, contains about 220 species, some of them among most magnificent of all orchids. They are quite varied vegetatively and florally and are adapted to dry tropical woodland habitat and have quite...

 Alliance

Taxonomic rank

In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...

 within this subtribe. There is, however, not sufficient scientific agreement to justify moving the "Campylocentrinae" at this time.