The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids: Over 1100 Species Illustrated and IdentifiedAlec M. Pridgeon Aimed at everyone interested in orchids, this guide illustrates and identifies over 1100 species. |
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Page 77
... Venezuela . It has long and persistently been confused with C. warscewiczii . Both of them are sometimes placed as varieties of C. ventricosum but are easily distinguished . Cycnoches chlorochilon has male flowers that are longer than ...
... Venezuela . It has long and persistently been confused with C. warscewiczii . Both of them are sometimes placed as varieties of C. ventricosum but are easily distinguished . Cycnoches chlorochilon has male flowers that are longer than ...
Page 145
... Venezuela and Colombia . The flowers are whitish and heavily covered with red - brown speckles . The lip is abruptly deflexed at the midpoint , and the callus consists of a pair of flat plates that are retuse across the front ...
... Venezuela and Colombia . The flowers are whitish and heavily covered with red - brown speckles . The lip is abruptly deflexed at the midpoint , and the callus consists of a pair of flat plates that are retuse across the front ...
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... Venezuela to Peru and Bolivia at the base of the Andes . The leaves are narrowly elongate and rigidly leathery . The flowers reach seven centimeters in diameter . The sepals and petals are pinkish white densely flecked with red . The ...
... Venezuela to Peru and Bolivia at the base of the Andes . The leaves are narrowly elongate and rigidly leathery . The flowers reach seven centimeters in diameter . The sepals and petals are pinkish white densely flecked with red . The ...
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apex apical lobe basal base blotch Bolivia Brazil bright brown callus Cattleya centimeters centimeters in diameter centimeters long centimeters tall Colombia color column wings compost Costa Rica cultivation Cymbidieae Cymbidieae Subtribe dark Dendrobium dorsal sepal Ecuador elongate endemic Epidendreae Epidendreae Subtribe Epidendrum epiphytic erect Etymology fleshy flowers are produced flowers reach Garay genus genus is characterized green greenish grow grown humidity hybrids hypochile inflorescence inflorescence produced intermediate conditions labellum Laelia lateral lobes lateral sepals leaf leathery leaves Lindley This species lip is white lithophytic Luer Lycaste margin Masdevallia Maxillaria meters Mexico midlobe moist native Odontoglossum Oncidium orchid pale Paphiopedilum Peru Phalaenopsis pink Pleurothallis pollinia pots pseudobulbous stems pseudobulbs purple racemes red-brown reddish Reichb.f rhizome Sarcanthinae Schltr sepals and petals sheaths slender species distributed species is found species occurs spots spur stipe Subtribe temperatures terrestrial three-lobed Tribe tropical Vanda Vandeae Subtribe Venezuela viscidium warm white flowers yellow