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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'.
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 ...
The monocots or monocotyledons have, as the name implies, a single (mono-) cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in their seeds.Historically, this feature was used to contrast the monocots with the dicotyledons or dicots which typically have two cotyledons; however, modern research has shown that the dicots are not a natural group, and the term can only be used to indicate all angiosperms that are not ...
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 ...
(orchid family) Orchis comes from the Greek for "testicle", from the shape of the paired root tubers of many Mediterranean species. [1] [109] [110] 707 genera, worldwide, especially in the tropics [1] [111] Largely herbaceous plants that generally grow in soil or on other plants.
Many monocots produce scent to attract pollinators but perhaps not as many as those that produce nectar. [1] [19] A bee orchid, Ophrys, mimics a female bee as a false reward. Most zoophilous monocots produce nectar as a reward and this nectar is alike to nectar of dicots. [1] [19] [20] [21] Carpellary septal nectaries are common and unique to ...
Phalaenopsis (/ ˌ f æ l ɪ ˈ n ɒ p s ɪ s /), also known as moth orchids, [2] is a genus of about seventy species of plants in the family Orchidaceae.Orchids in this genus are monopodial epiphytes or lithophytes with long, coarse roots, short, leafy stems and long-lasting, flat flowers arranged in a flowering stem that often branches near the end.
The Orchidoideae, or the orchidoid orchids, are a subfamily of the orchid family (Orchidaceae) that contains around 3630 species. [1] Species typically have a single ( monandrous ), fertile anther which is erect and basitonic .