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A Phalaenopsis flower. Orchids are easily distinguished from other plants, as they share some very evident derived characteristics or synapomorphies.Among these are: bilateral symmetry of the flower (zygomorphism), many resupinate flowers, a nearly always highly modified petal (labellum), fused stamens and carpels, and extremely small seeds.
Orchids often achieve this by resembling species that do offer rewards and that cohabit in the same environment. [35] Feeding deception commonly manifests as a general resemblance to rewarding species, with orchids featuring large, brightly colored flowers that exploit pollinators' innate preferences for such floral characteristics. [29] [34] [36]
Chiloglottis, commonly known as wasp orchids, ant orchids or bird orchids, [2] is a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae and is found in eastern Australia and New Zealand. Wasp orchids are terrestrial herbs which grow in colonies of genetically identical plants
The orchid family is one of the largest flowering plant families in the world. Orchids can be found on every continent except Antarctica, from the steamy jungles of Asia to the dry deserts of ...
Pterostylis barbata, commonly known as the western bearded greenhood [3] or bird orchid [4] is a species of orchid endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.Flowering plants have a rosette of leaves at the base of the plant and a single translucent white flower with dark green veins on a flowering stem with up to 20 stem leaves.
Chiloglottis valida, commonly known as the large bird orchid [2] or common bird orchid, [3] is a species of orchid endemic to south-eastern Australia.It has two dark green leaves and a single greenish purple to purplish brown flower with six to ten blackish, column-like calli on the labellum.
Chiloglottis trapeziformis, commonly known as the broad-lip bird orchid, [2] diamond ant orchid [3] or dainty bird-orchid, [4] is a species of orchid endemic to south-eastern Australia. It has two narrow leaves and a narrow, greenish to purplish or brownish flower with a short, shiny black, ant-like callus covering the lower quarter of the ...
Chiloglottis cornuta, commonly known as the green bird orchid, [2] is a species of orchid found in south-eastern Australia and in New Zealand, including many of its offshore islands. It has two broad leaves and a single green or pinkish flower with six to eight rounded, flattened green, reddish or blackish calli on the labellum .