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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... reaches 30 centimeters long with up to twelve flowers produced . The flowers reach ten centimeters in diameter . The sepals and petals are similar in size and shape , narrow and acute to acuminate at the apex , and white heavily ...
... reaches 30 centimeters long with up to twelve flowers produced . The flowers reach ten centimeters in diameter . The sepals and petals are similar in size and shape , narrow and acute to acuminate at the apex , and white heavily ...
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... plants with clustered , oblong , ribbed pseudobulbs with two or three leaves at the apex . The inflorescences are about 20 centimeters long , hang with the weight of the flowers , and have six to twelve flowers . The flowers reach five ...
... plants with clustered , oblong , ribbed pseudobulbs with two or three leaves at the apex . The inflorescences are about 20 centimeters long , hang with the weight of the flowers , and have six to twelve flowers . The flowers reach five ...
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... flowers each . The flowers are large and showy with recurved sepals and petals , greenish on the outer surface ... reach 40 centimeters long , and the leaves are narrow and grasslike . The inflorescence is apical and is formed of a bent , ...
... flowers each . The flowers are large and showy with recurved sepals and petals , greenish on the outer surface ... reach 40 centimeters long , and the leaves are narrow and grasslike . The inflorescence is apical and is formed of a bent , ...
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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