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The genus Chiloglottis was first formally described in 1810 by Robert Brown.Brown described Chiloglottis diphylla at the same time, making it the type species. [4] [5]David Jones has transferred some species, especially those commonly known as "bird orchids" (Simpliglottis) and "ant orchids" (Myrmechila) to other genera, but the change has not been widely accepted.
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 ...
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 ...
The scale's activities can result in stress for the plant, causing reduced growth and giving it a greater susceptibility to plant diseases. [12] Mutualistic Formica fusca ants tending a herd of mealybugs. Scale insects in the genus Cryptostigma live inside the nests of neotropical ant species. [13]
Triphora trianthophoros is a small, terrestrial, semi-saprophytic orchid. [2] The showiest member of its genus, T. trianthophoros has 1-8 (often 3, thus the name) nodding flowers that are roughly 2 cm in size and sit atop stems 8–25 cm tall.
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.
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