Titlebook: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 1 (A - E); Eng Soon Teoh Book 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 Orchid taxonom

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Magnitude

Bl., numerous narrow leaves in two ranks, overlapping at the base (Fig. 8.1). Inflorescence is short, terminal, a ball of crowded bracts and small flowers. Kelabit in Sarawak wear the orchid as a charm to protect them against curses (Christensen 2002).

尽责

Bl.,ane on an erect or pendulous stem. Inflorescence is terminal, often also lateral, and it carries many small, white or green flowers. There is no horticultural interest in the genus (Comber 2001; Seidenfaden and Wood 1992).

Eviction

Reinw. ex Bl.,s narrow and outstretched, whereas the column and the lip are joined to form a slim, long tube (Fig. 4.1). This gives the flowers the impression of a swarm of insects in flight. Hence the name ., derived from Greek . ‘locust’ and . ‘resembling’ (Schultes, Pease 1963).

flavonoids

(Hook.f.) Brieger, arises from upper nodes of the stem, arching, densely many flowered on a bottle-brush raceme. Flowers are small, cream, yellow, brown, brownish red or purplish. Petals are smaller than the sepals and lip is three-lobed (Chen et al. 2009) (Fig. 7.1).

fibula

Lindl,olate, narrow, lanceolate, plicate leaves. Inflorescence arises from the side of the corm and carries several, loosely arranged, non-resupinate (upside down), pink flowers, 1 cm across (Fig. 12.1). There is only one species. It is a medicinal plant in China where it is employed to treat menstrual disorders and prevent pain (Teoh 2016).

刺耳

Bl.,le small bamboo (hence the common name bamboo orchid) (Fig. 16.1). Inflorescence is terminal or axillar and carries a succession of flowers from white to dark pink and of variable size and proportions, with plants from the mountains usually possessing larger flowers.

overbearing

Ruptured-Disk

Schltr.,ourful and aseasonal – they are fast growing and they have the capacity to grow into densely branching specimen plants. Orchid hobbyists searching for . that are easy to cultivate usually look for . in ancestry of the hybrid.