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Coralroot orchid Corallorrhiza trifida: Musk orchid Herminium monorchis: Greater butterfly-orchid Platanthera chlorantha: Lesser butterfly-orchid Platanthera bifolia: Pyramidal orchid Anacamptis pyramidalis: Small-white orchid Pseudorchis albida: Fragrant orchid Gymnadenia conopsea: Frog orchid Coeloglossum viride: Common spotted-orchid ...
With over 70,000 species, monocots are extremely evolutionarily successful and occupy a diverse set of niches: [17] Perennial geophytes including orchids (Asparagales); tulips and lilies ; rosette and succulent epiphytes (Asparagales); mycoheterotrophs (Liliales, Dioscoreales, Pandanales), all in the lilioid monocots; major cereal grains (maize ...
Diuris, commonly known as donkey orchids, bee orchids, nanny goat orchids or pansy orchids, [2] is a genus of more than sixty species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is endemic to Australia, apart from one species endemic to Timor.
Asparagales (asparagoid lilies) are a diverse order of flowering plants in the monocots.Under the APG IV system of flowering plant classification, Asparagales are the largest order of monocots with 14 families, [5] 1,122 genera, and about 36,000 species, with members as varied as asparagus, orchids, yuccas, irises, onions, garlic, leeks, and other Alliums, daffodils, snowdrops, amaryllis ...
Largely herbaceous plants that generally grow in soil or on other plants. Orchids are the largest family of vascular plants, with more than 26,000 species and 100,000 recorded cultivars. Vanilla is derived from the fermentation of Vanilla planifolia. Cattleya, Cymbidium, Oncidium, Phalaenopsis, Paphiopedilum and Vanda are commonly grown ...
Peristeria elata is a species of orchid occurring from Central America to Panama, Venezuela, and Ecuador.It is the type species of its genus. It is commonly referred to as the Holy Ghost orchid, dove orchid, or flower of the Holy Spirit in English, and, as the flor del Espiritu Santo in Spanish.
Epipactis leptochila, the narrow-lipped helleborine, [1] is a species of orchid in the genus Epipactis, which is found in chalk or limestone-based beech and hornbeam woodland in southern England and Wales.
Pterostylis is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Commonly called greenhood orchids, they are terrestrial, deciduous, perennial, tuberous, herbs found in Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, New Caledonia and one Indonesian island. The flowers are mostly green, sometimes with brown, reddish or white stripes ...