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Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.
Prosthechea cochleata, commonly referred to as the clamshell orchid [1] or cockleshell orchid, is an epiphytic, sympodial New World orchid native to Central America, the West Indies, Colombia, Venezuela, and southern Florida. [2] It is also known as the black orchid in Belize, where it is the national flower. [3]
Erythrorchis cassythoides, commonly known as the black bootlace orchid, [2] is a leafless climbing orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has long, dark brown to blackish stems and groups of up to thirty yellowish to greenish, sweetly scented flowers and is endemic to eastern Australia .
This is a list of genera in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), originally according to The Families of Flowering Plants - L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz.This list is adapted regularly with the changes published in the Orchid Research Newsletter which is published twice a year by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Thelymitra atronitida was first formally described in 2000 by Jeff Jeanes and the description was published in Muelleria [4] from a specimen collected near Genoa. [6] The specific epithet (atronitida) is derived from the Latin words ater meaning "black" [7]: 111 and nitida meaning "bright", "shining" or "elegant", [7]: 481 referring to the colour of the anther lobe.
The Black Orchid (nightclub), a Chicago night club from 1949 to 1959; Black Orchid (band), an Australian gothic metal band; Black Orchid, a 1962 jazz album by the Three Sounds; Black Orchid, a 1987 Hawaiian album by Peter Moon Band "Black Orchid", a song by Stevie Wonder from Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants"
The orchid family (Orchidaceae) is subdivided into five subfamilies, and then into tribes and subtribes. Groups of closely related genera are sometimes referred to informally as alliances . An alliance is a group of taxa, at any taxonomic rank , but usually at the rank of genus or species, that are thought to be closely related.
Coelogyne pandurata is a species of orchid native to Southeast Asia. It was first described by English botanist John Lindley in 1853 based on a specimen collected from Sarawak in 1852 by Hugh Low. [2] [3] [4]