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 187
... column wings are narrow and serrate on the margin . Odontoglossum cristatum Lindley This species is found in Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru at elevations from 1,600 to 1,800 meters . The plants have clustered , ovoid pseudobulbs that ...
... column wings are narrow and serrate on the margin . Odontoglossum cristatum Lindley This species is found in Colombia , Ecuador , and Peru at elevations from 1,600 to 1,800 meters . The plants have clustered , ovoid pseudobulbs that ...
Page 189
... column for most of its length . The lip is white at the base with a brown blotch covering the base and with a yellow apex . The callus consists of a pair of diverging finger - like processes . The column wings are narrow and projecting ...
... column for most of its length . The lip is white at the base with a brown blotch covering the base and with a yellow apex . The callus consists of a pair of diverging finger - like processes . The column wings are narrow and projecting ...
Page 190
... column . The callus consists of a pair of fleshy , toothed , parallel lamellae . The column wings are a pair of threads extending well beyond the anther . Odontoglossum sceptrum Reichb.f . & Warsc . This species is found in Colombia at ...
... column . The callus consists of a pair of fleshy , toothed , parallel lamellae . The column wings are a pair of threads extending well beyond the anther . Odontoglossum sceptrum Reichb.f . & Warsc . This species is found in Colombia at ...
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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