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Orchid taxonomy is still being revised and each year about another 150 new species are being discovered. The list of genera alone currently stands just short of 1000 entries. From a cladistic point of view, the orchid family is considered to be monophyletic, i.e. the group incorporates all the taxa derived from an ancestral group.
Dendrobium Orchid. There are as many as 1,800 different species of dendrobium orchids. These orchids like to grow in small pots and often have tall, top-heavy blooms that require staking for support.
About 150 species and about a dozen new genera were described each year from 2000 to 2015. [citation needed] According to Dressler, there are 5 subfamilies, 22 tribes, 70 subtribes, and about 850 genera of orchids. When he published his classification, only about 20,000 species of orchids were known. Several thousand have been described since ...
Pseudorchis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae.The sole species is the small white orchid (Pseudorchis albida).It is found across much of Europe and northern Asia from Spain and Iceland to Kamchatka, including France, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Scandinavia, Ukraine and much of Russia.
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 ...
Bauhinia: orchid trees; Bauhinia purpurea: purple orchid tree Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Bauhinia variegata: pink orchid tree Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Bauhinia variegata var. candida: white orchid tree Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Caesalpinia: bird-of-paradise trees; Caesalpinia echinata
Platanthera dilatata, known as tall white bog orchid, bog candle, or boreal bog orchid is a species of orchid, a flowering plant in the family Orchidaceae, native to North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was first formally described in 1813 by Frederick Traugott Pursh as Orchis dilatata .
Orchids are members of the plant family Orchidaceae. Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large.