| 1. | Flowers blue–white or blue–green. Japan | 2 |
| Flowers orange–brown or orange–brown and green. Central Africa | 4 | |
| 2. | Staminal filaments strongly dorsiventrally flattened, subfoliose, margins deeply toothed; terminal style-stigma with three acute branches, style appendages each bifurcate, apices acute | 1. O. yamashitae |
| Staminal filaments subcylindrical, margins entire; style-stigma and style appendages with apices clavate or capitate, rounded | 3 | |
| 3. | Perianth lobes filiform; base of lobes with callus-like cluster of round cells on the adaxial surfaces | 2.O. shinzatoi |
| Perianth lobes narrowly triangular at base; base of lobes smooth | 3.O. hyodoi | |
| 4. | Perianth lobes narrowly triangular; tube about as long as wide | 4.O. duncanii |
| Perianth lobes filiform; tube about twice as long as broad | 5 | |
| 5. | Perianth lobes brown, c. 10 mm long; tube orange-brown. Cameroon | 5.O. triandra |
| Perianth lobes white, c. 5 mm long; tube dark green, base orange brown. C.A.R | 6.O. frankei |