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The surface or side of an organ directed away from the axis (usually the lower side).
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Dealing with the abaxial surface of an organ.
|
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The posterior
division of an insect's body.
|
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Unusual or atypical; differing from the
normal form.
|
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Changing suddenly rather than gradually.
|
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To
shed or throw off.
|
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Shedding of plant parts, such as leaves. This may
be natural resulting from old age or premature as a result of
stress.
|
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Having no chlorophyll.
|
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Needle-shaped.
|
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With a
terminal inflorescence.
|
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A leaf with two or more veins
running in convergent arches towards the apex.
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Tapering into a long, drawn-out
point.
|
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Tapered to a short, sharp point.
|
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Attached by the whole
length or a substantial part.
|
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Arising in an unusual position; often
said of adventitious roots or buds.
|
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Adventitious roots arising on stems or pseudobulbs and
growing in the air; such roots are often prominent on monopodial orchids.
|
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Affinity, a botanical reference used to denote an undescribed species closely
related to or similar to an already described species.
|
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Having winglike extensions or margins, winged.
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Growing in different geographical
regions.
|
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Arising at different levels in a straight line or in a
spiral.
|
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With stomata on both
upper and lower surfaces of the leaf.
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Clasping the stem but not entirely encircling it.
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A
cross-connection of veins in a leaf (network).
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Said of venation when it forms a network.
|
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Another term
for clinandrium.
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Ridged along its length,
these ridges appearing as angles in the cross-section.
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Front, away
from the axis.
|
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The period of flowering.
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The
pigments in plants responsisble for red, blue or purple
colouring.
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The tip or
end.
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Lacking leaves.
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At the apex.
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Ending in a short, sharp point.
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A
plant that arises from apomixis.
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The
production of seeds without the union of sex cells; this is actually a process
of vegetative reproduction.
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Lying flat
against.
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Moderately curved, arched.
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Having a stiffish
bristle-shaped appendage, awn-like.
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Jointed;
with an abscission layer.
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Propagation by vegetative means; for example, by division, aerial
growths or meristem culture.
|
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Drawn
out.
|
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An ear-like appendage; sometimes used for a small outgrowth on
the anther of some orchids.
|
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Bearing
auricles.
|
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The process of self-pollination.
|
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An organism capable of
synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances, using light or chemical
energy.
|
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Angle formed between adjacent organs in contact; commonly
applied to the angle between a leaf and the stem.
|
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Pertaining to an axis; used
to describe ovary placentation
when the ovules are attached to a central axis in the ovary.
|
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Borne within the axil.
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The main stem of a plant or
the main part of a plant organ.
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Arising from the base;
often said of the point where an inflorescence
arises.
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Attached by the base, as certain anthers are to their
filaments.
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Deeply notched for more than half its
length.
|
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Forked or notched.
|
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A term used
for hybrids between two genera.
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Two-lobed.
|
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With two cavities or
locules.
|
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Both male and female sexes present.
|
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The expanded
part of a leaf or labellum.
|
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A large spot of colour of irregular
shape.
|
|
A term used for the prominent mound on the labellum of
Corysanthes species.
|
|
A term used by
orchid growers for small-flowered species of limited
horticultural interest.
|
|
A propagation term used to denote the
application of artificial heat in the basal region of the
division or cutting.
|
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Bearing
bracts.
|
|
Term used for rocky slopes and hills of different geology to
surrounding area.
|
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With stiff hairs or bristles.
|
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An unopened
flower or a new shoot or inflorescence in its early stages of
development.
|
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A membranous sheath which covers the glue in some
viscidia.
|
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Shedding or falling early.
|
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Produced into or having
a spur.
|
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An excess of lime, as in soil.
|
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Shaped like a
slipper.
|
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Non-secreting glands found on orchid labella; in many native
terrestrial orchids they are important in pollination and associated with deceit or mimicry.
|
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Raised or mounded structures (see also calli); also specialised structures on Microtis labella
that resemble clusters of sand grains.
|
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All of the sepals of a
flower.
|
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Shaped like a bell.
|
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The main veins curved and more
orless parallel with the leaf margins.
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channelled.
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A dense head of flowers.
|
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A dehiscent, dry fruit containing many seeds.
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Keel-shaped.
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Female reproductive organ.
|
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A
reduced leaf, eg. bract.
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With long tail-like
appendages or filiform tips; as in the floral segments
of Ephippium
masdevalliaceum.
|
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Tail-shaped.
|
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Belonging
to a stem, usually referring to leaves.
|
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Nodding or
drooping.
|
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Containing chlorophyll.
|
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The green pigment of leaves and
other organs; important as a light-absorbing agent in photosynthesis.
|
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A yellowish plant deficient
in nitrogen or iron.
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With a fringe of fine hairs.
|
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The process of self-pollination occurring without the flowers
opening.
|
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Pertaining to a clone, a group of plants
propagated vegetatively from one plant.
|
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A group of plants propagated
vegetatively from one plant (usually a superior horticultural form); all members
of a clone are genetically identical.
|
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A familiar
term used for the expanded apical part of sepals or
petals; for example Arachnorchis; see also corynosmophore.
|
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A
term used for thickened segments; see also clavate.
|
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Covered in tiny bumps.
|
|
The central fleshy structure
in orchid flowers composed of the style and staminal
filaments.
|
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An extension of the base of the column (usually fleshy).
|
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Flattened laterally.
|
|
Sunken,
basin-like; often used in the description of a stigma.
|
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Folded together along its length, with each
half flat.
|
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Merging together.
|
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Belonging to the same genus.
|
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Crowded closely
together.
|
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Cone-shaped.
|
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Narrowed or drawn together at some
point.
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Twisted.
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Narrowed.
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Curving
outwards.
|
|
Rolled up lengthwise; referring to the way some leaves are
folded when young.
|
|
Where more than one kind of pollinator acts effectively in the pollination of a
plant.
|
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Heart-shaped.
|
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Leathery in texture.
|
|
A thick
underground stem somposed of several internodes; as in the
pseudobulbs of Geodorum terrestre.
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Ribbed.
|
|
The margin cut regularly into rounded teeth.
|
|
The margin cut rugularly into small rounded teeth.
|
|
A
term used for the callus of some orchids.
|
|
With
the margin curled or crumpled.
|
|
Fertilisation by pollen from
another flower.
|
|
Transfer of pollen from flower
to flower.
|
|
Having the shape of a cowl or hood; hooded.
|
|
A
horticultural variety of a plant or
crop.
|
|
Narrowest at the base widens evenly upwards and ends as if cut
off square, wedge-shaped.
|
|
When the segments remain concave and do not become flat.
|
|
Resembling a small
cup; cup-shaped.
|
|
A point or pointed end.
|
|
Round in
cross-section and not tapered lengthwise.
|
|
Shaped like the bow of a
boat.
|
|
An inflorescence where the branches
are opposite.
|
|
In the form of a cyne; a
branching, determinate inflorescence, with a flower at the end of each
branch.
|
|
The branch of biology that deals with the formation,
structure, and function of cells.
|
|
The living material within a cell.
|
|
A condition in which young seedlings are
attacked and killed by soil-borne fungi.
|
|
Falling or shedding of any
plant part; used for terrestiral orchids that die back seasonally to a tuberous
root system.
|
|
Splitting or opening
when mature.
|
|
With three sides and broadest below the middle
(triangular in flat plane).
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|
Triangular in solid
form.
|
|
Toothed.
|
|
Finely toothed.
|
|
A weak plant or one
imperfectly developed.
|
|
Said of a growth or inflorescence when it has an extension
limit.
|
|
With two anthers.
|
|
Forking regularly into two equal
branches or parts.
|
|
Widely spreading and much branched; of open
growth.
|
|
Formed like a finger or fingers;
finger-shaped.
|
|
Existing in two different forms.
|
|
The
non-flowering plants are strikingly different to the flowering
plants.
|
|
With two sets of chromosomes.
|
|
Deeply divided into
segments.
|
|
Away from the base towards the apex.
|
|
In two ranks; usually applied to the
arrangement of leaves or flowers.
|
|
During the day, as describing
flowers that only open in the day.
|
|
A physical or physiological
condition that prevents growth or germination even
though external factors are favourable.
|
|
The state of a plant when
growth has ceased for the year and other activities in the plant have slowed
down, usually during winter.
|
|
The upper or outer surface or
edge.
|
|
The upper-most sepal in nonresupinate
orchid flowers
|
|
Covered with soft
hairs.
|
|
Leaves which are folded once along the
centre, the two halves being flat.
|
|
Without a spur.
|
|
The study
of the interaction of plants and animals within their natural
environment.
|
|
Spindle-shaped in three dimensions, tapering to each
end.
|
|
Oval and flat in a plane, narrowed to each end which is
rounded.
|
|
Oval and flat in a plane, broadest at the middle and tapered
to each end.
|
|
With a shallow notch at the apex.
|
|
Restricted to a particular country, region or
area.
|
|
Tissue rich in nutrients which surrounds the embryo in most
seeds; orchid seeds lack endosperm.
|
|
Sword-shaped, as in the leaves of
Dipodium
ensifolium.
|
|
Whole; not toothed, lobed or
divided in any way.
|
|
Without a pedicel.
|
|
Short-lived; in flowers referring to
those which last a few hours or less.
Short lived or of short duration. |
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The outermost layer of cells covering
the leaves.
|
|
Growing close to the earth.
|
|
Growing on
rocks.
|
|
A plant growing on or attached to another plant but not drawing
nourishment from it and therefore not parasitic.
|
|
Growing on or
attached to another plant but not drawing nourishment from it and therefore not
parasitic.
|
|
A condition of decline in trees attributed to having too
many epiphytes on their trunk and branches.
|
|
Laterally flattened leaves
arranged in two ranks that overlap at the
base.
|
|
Upright.
|
|
With an irregular cut or notched margin; as if it has been chewed.
|
|
Without a beak.
|
|
Of short duration, passing away
quickly.
|
|
Remaining green and retaining leaves throughout the
year.
|
|
Warty outgrowths that often secrete water; also used for
structures on the labellum margins of Microtis
that resemble clusters of cells.
|
|
A plant introduced from
overseas.
|
|
Protruding beyond the surrounding parts.
|
|
Occurring
outside of a flower; as in extrafloral
nectaries.
|
|
A horticultural term used for a viable vegetative
bud.
|
|
Sickle shaped.
|
|
A taxonomic group of related genera.
|
|
Mature plant capable of flowering and
producing seed.
|
|
The act of union of the male gametes
(from the pollen) with the egg cells in the
ovules.
|
|
Containing fibres.
|
|
Very narrow with margins straight and
parallel; thread-like.
|
|
Fringed, especially along a margin.
|
|
Flattened or expanded extension of a margin.
|
|
Free-flowering.
|
|
A disagreeable
odor.
|
|
Leaf-like.
|
|
Divided into two equal
segments.
|
|
Not joined to any other part except at the
base.
|
|
The seed-bearing organ developed after fertilisation.
|
|
short-lived; in flowers
referring to those which last a few hours or less.
|
|
Grooved
longitudinally.
|
|
Spindle shaped; widest in the middle and tapered to
each end.
|
|
With the petals fused.
|
|
With the
sepals fused.
|
|
A taxonomic group of closely related species.
|
|
A plant growing in the
ground.
|
|
A plant growing in the ground.
|
|
The active growth of
an embryo resulting in the development of a young plant.
|
|
Something
that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form, plane or margin.
|
|
With a pouch-like swelling;
humped.
|
|
Without hairs.
|
|
A secreting surface or structure;
loosely used for any protuberance or appendage having the appearence of such an
organsuch as calli.
|
|
A term sometimes used for viscidium.
|
|
Bearing glands.
|
|
Covered
with a bloom giving a bluish lustre.
|
|
Globe-like, globular, spherical.
|
|
Globular; almost spherical.
|
|
Almost
spherical.
|
|
Wet and very sticky.
|
|
Another term for the column.
|
|
The female parts of a
flower.
|
|
Another term for the column.
|
|
The general appearance of a
plant.
|
|
The environment in which a plant grows.
|
|
With one set of
chromosomes.
|
|
An inflorescence with the
flowers in a tight cluster; for example, Tropidia territorialis.
|
|
A
partially parasitic plant that obtains some nourishment from its host but also
photosynthesizes.
|
|
Half of a pollinarium
which is removed as a unit; this structure occurs in orchids which have two
viscidia.
|
|
A plant which produces a fleshy rather than a woody stem.
|
|
A botanical
collection of pressed plant specimens.
|
|
Having male and female parts on
a flower.
|
|
Said of orchids which have pseudobulbs consisting of a
single internode.
|
|
Covered with long spreading
coarse hairs.
|
|
Plant deriving its nutrition solely from a mycorrhizal symbiosis.
|
|
Said of orchids which
have pseudobulbs consisting of several internodes.
|
|
The friable layer
on the soil surface formed from decaying vegetation.
|
|
Translucent or
transparent.
|
|
The progeny of a cross between two species, cultivars or other hybrids.
|
|
The act of
crossing flowers to produce hybrids.
|
|
When the flowers are twisted at
more than 180 degrees.
|
|
With stomata only on the lower
surface of the leaf.
|
|
Overlapping like fish
scales.
|
|
Ineditus, unpublished.
|
|
Deeply and irregularly
cut.
|
|
Said of an anther which bends forwards
during the development of the flower.
|
|
Curved inward.
|
|
Not
splitting open at maturity.
|
|
Said of a growth or inflorescence when it has no apparent extension
limit.
|
|
Native to a country, region or area.
|
|
The flowering
structure of a plant.
|
|
A chemical substance which
prevents a growth process.
|
|
Having the appearance of an
insect.
|
|
The part of a stem between two
nodes.
|
|
Turned inwards towards the axis.
|
|
Margins rolled inwards.
|
|
Bearing
distinct joints or nodes.
|
|
Term used for rocky hills rising out of a
plain.
|
|
A lip; in orchids
and gingers the highly modified ventral petal that is
primarily involved in pollination.
|
|
Appearing as if irregularly
cut or torn.
|
|
Flask-shaped.
|
|
The expanded part of a leaf or labellum.
|
|
Lance-shaped; longer than wide and
tapering at each end, especially the apex.
|
|
Woolly.
|
|
The immature stage in an
insect; from hatching to pupation.
|
|
Arising at the side of the main axis.
|
|
Loose, drooping, non-turgid.
|
|
A
horticultural term used by growers for a new growth.
|
|
Lacking leaves.
|
|
Consisting of or
having the texture or appearance of wood;
woody.
|
|
Strap-shaped.
|
|
The flat expanded portion of a
segment.
|
|
Long and narrow with parallel
sides.
|
|
Tongue-shaped.
|
|
See labellum.
|
|
A plant that grows on rocks, boulders,
escarpments and cliff faces.
|
|
Growing on rocks, boulders, escarpments
and cliff faces.
|
|
Growing in communities near the sea.
|
|
A
segment of an organ resulting from incision of the margins or
division.
|
|
Having one or more lobes.
|
|
A compartment of the ovary.
|
|
Strap-shaped.
|
|
The border of a
leaf.
|
|
Attached to or near the edge.
|
|
Packets or clumps of pollen, can be either monads or tetrads.
|
|
Covered
with flour-like powder.
|
|
The potting mix in which an orchid is grown,
or the mixture on which seeds are raised.
|
|
Like a membrane;
thin-textured.
|
|
The undifferentiated
tissue from which new cells are formed, e.g. the tips of roots or stems; the
growing tip.
|
|
Tissue which retains the capacity for further
growth.
|
|
Middle portion of a labellum.
|
|
The
principal vein that runs the full length of a leaf or
segment.
|
|
A deceitful resemblance between different
organisms.
|
|
With one anther.
|
|
Having a chain-like series of bumps,
swellings or joints that resemble beads on a string.
|
|
Flowering and
fruiting only once before dying.
|
|
The leaves on the flowering plant are the same form and
arrangement as those on the non-flowering plant.
|
|
Having a single
ancestor.
|
|
Capable of independent
movement.
|
|
With a short, sharp apex (or mucro) on a
leaf.
|
|
Having more than one cell.
|
|
In
several series, rows or whorls.
|
|
A mass of fungal strands.
|
|
A
beneficial relationship between the roots of a vascular
plant and fungi resulting in nutrient exchange.
|
|
The symbiotic
association of the mycelium of a fungus with the roots
of certain plants.
|
|
Plant that obtains some or all of its nutrition
through mycorrhizal fungi; another term for
saprophytic.
|
|
A term used for pollinia which
lack any supporting structures such as stipes or
caudicles.
|
|
Established after introduction from another region or
country.
|
|
A sweet fluid secreted from a nectary.
|
|
Markings, usually lines or lines of dots,
on petals or the labellum which lead
a pollinator to nectar.
|
|
Bearing nectar-secreting glands.
|
|
The fine veins which traverse the leaf-blade.
|
|
Venation where the
veins join to form a network (see also anastomosing).
|
|
A point on the stem where leaves or bracts arise.
|
|
A small, swollen
lump on roots; usually applied to legumes but the roots of Apostasia and
Tropidia have unusual fleshy nodule-like structures
(see also tubercles).
|
|
Cordate with the broadest
part above the middle.
|
|
Lanceolate with the
broadest part above the middle.
|
|
Having an oblong
shape in solid form, with the cross section circular and the ends
rounded.
|
|
Longer than broad, with parallel sides and rounded
ends.
|
|
Ovate with the broadest part above the
middle.
|
|
Reverse egg-shaped in solid form, with the narrow end attached
to the stem.
|
|
Inversely trullate, with two longer
sides meeting at the base.
|
|
Blunt or rounded at the apex.
|
|
A growth arising from the base of a plant and
producing roots while still attached.
|
|
Arising on opposite sides but at the same level.
|
|
Placed or
located directly across from something else or from each
other.
|
|
Circular in outline.
|
|
A person very interested in
orchids and their cultivation.
|
|
A person who studies
orchids.
|
|
The study of orchids.
|
|
A scent-producing gland.
|
|
The part of the gynoecium which encloses the ovules and after fertilisation develops into the fruit.
|
|
Egg-shaped in a flat
plane.
|
|
Egg-shaped in solid form.
|
|
Lacking in radiance or
vitality; dull.
|
|
Divided like a hand.
|
|
A much-branched racemose inflorescence.
|
|
Arranged in a panicle.
|
|
Small, irregular, pimple-like projections
or bumps.
|
|
Bearing papillae; the surface is
covered with tiny roughened structures, sometimes nipple
shaped.
|
|
Resembling parchment or paper.
|
|
A plant that derives
nourishment directly from another living plant.
|
|
A term applied when
the ovules are attached to the wall of the ovary.
|
|
The stem which supports a
single flower in an inflorescence.
|
|
Of a
flower, when it is stalked, borne on a pedicel.
|
|
The main axis of a
compound inflorescence or the stalk of a solitary
flower which subtends the pedicel.
|
|
Having a peduncle.
|
|
Translucent; sometimes applied to a
sparkling surface.
|
|
An abnormality whereby the labellum is of a similar shape and colour to the other
petals.
|
|
Circular with the stalk or petiole
attached in the middle on the undersurface.
|
|
Hanging
downwards.
|
|
Hanging down.
|
|
Brush-like, tufted, in
tufts.
|
|
A plant living for more than two years.
|
|
A collective
term for the petals and sepals of a flower, in orchids this does not include the
labellum.
|
|
A collective term for the petals and
sepals of a flower, in orchids this does not include the labellum.
|
|
Having a petiole.
|
|
The stalk of a leaf.
|
|
The
process in green plants and certain other organisms by which carbohydrates are
synthesized from carbon dioxide and water using light as an energy
source.
|
|
The historical or ancestral development of a group of
organisms over time.
|
|
Narrow with a near-apical
opening.
|
|
Bearing long soft hairs.
|
|
The place in
the ovaries that bears the seeds.
|
|
The arrangement of the ovules in the
ovary.
|
|
Folded longitudinally.
|
|
Folded longitudinally in
pleats.
|
|
The one-celled male spores that are borne in the anther.
|
|
The whole male structure as moved by an
insect during pollination.
|
|
An insect that carries pollen from one flower to another.
|
|
Cogerent or
incoherent structures consisting wholly of aggregated pollen grains.
|
|
Consisting of many forms; a variable species.
|
|
Relating to or characterized by
development from more than one ancestral type.
|
|
Spreading outward and forwards.
|
|
The
tubular sucking mouthparts of insects.
|
|
Bearing offshoots and other
processes of vegetative propagation.
|
|
Lying
flat.
|
|
A term used for orchid embryos
because they lack any differentiation into tissues.
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Situated near the
point of attachment.
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Thickened bulb-like stems of sympodial orchids bearing nodes.
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Having
pseudobulbs.
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A type of mimicry whereby flowers deceive male insects into attempting
copulation in order to achieve pollination.
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Starch-rich cells produced on the
labellum of some orchids and which are collected during
pollination.
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Having the appearance of
being whorled.
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Softly hairy.
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Covered
with pustules or small blisters.
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Pear shaped.
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Period of
dormacy between growth spurts.
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A simple
unbranched inflorescence with stalked
flowers
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Resembling or borne in a raceme.
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The main axis of a
compound leaf or an inflorescence (to which the
pedicels or petiolules are attached).
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Branched.
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Said of
anthers which are strongly bent so that the apex is below
the level of the base.
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Bent backwards.
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Said of some orchids
which have slender leafy stems of uniform thickness, for example, Conostalix
lobbii.
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The
process by which living cells oxidise food compounds to produce energy, water
and carbon dioxide.
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With veins that interconnect like a
net.
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Another term for a viscidium.
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Pointed strongly backwards towards
the base.
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The apex rounded and with a shallow
notch.
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With the margins rolled back.
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The main axis of a compound leaf or an inflorescence (to which the pedicels or petiolules are
attached).
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A slender rootlike filament by
which plants attach to the substratum and absorb nourishment.
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An
underground stem with nodes, roots and which can form
shoots.
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Having a beak.
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Wrinkled.
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Deeply pouched; like a
sack.
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A leafless (or nearly so) plant lacking
chlorophyll that derives sustenance from decaying
wood or other plant parts, in association with a symbiotic fungus.
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A
dry flattened, papery body; sometimes also used as a term for a rudimentary
leaf.
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Climbing.
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Thin, dry, and
membranaceous.
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Directed towards one side.
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A
mature ovule containing an embryo and capable of
germinating.
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The protective covering of a seed;
also called testa.
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A young plant raised from seed
which has not yet flowered.
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With sharp forward-pointing
teeth.
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Stiff
hairs, bristles.
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A horticultural term used by growers for a
new growth.
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Undivided, unbranched; of one piece.
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Having only
one cell.
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That section of root which supports a
replacement tuber.
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The area between two lobes or
segments; in Pterostylis flowers it is used loosely and refers to the
conjoined part of the lateral
sepals.
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Spatula-shaped or spoon-shaped.
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The processes by
which species evolve.
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A taxonomic group of
closely related plants all with similar basic features.
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Star-shaped or of star-like form.
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The main
supporting axis of a plant.
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Enfolding a stem.
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Not fertile; a plant
which is not currently flowering.
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More than one stigma.
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The
sticky receptive area of the stigma.
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Spreading like a stolon; specialised
reproductive roots in some terrestrial orchids that
form clonal colonies.
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A thin line or band,
especially one of several that are parallel or close together.
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Somewhat leathery.
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A subdivision
of a genus.
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Almost circular.
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Very
shortly stalked.
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Somewhat similar.
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To support another
structure or organ.
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Below ground; plants which spend their life cycle
below ground.
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Awl-shaped; with a stiff point that tapers from base to
apex.
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Fleshy or juicy.
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A shoot arising from the roots or the trunk below ground
level.
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The markings lines
or ridges on an orchid capsule where it splits at
maturity.
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An organism living cooperatively with a different species.
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Growing together.
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Having flowers
and leaves which appear at the same time; inflorescence developing simultaneously with a new shoot.
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The complex of floral features which suggests
adaptation to a particular pollinator
group.
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An incorrect name which refers a species.
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A structure formed by the fusion of two
or more sepals.
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The science of classification of
organisms.
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The
classification and naming of plants or animals.
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Round in cross-section and
tapered or cylindrical.
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The apex or end.
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Growing in the ground.
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Grouped
like tiles in a pavement.
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A unit of four pollen
grains.
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Four-sided, as in the pseudobulbs of Tetrabaculum
spp.
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The partitions between the locules in an ovary.
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Densely covered with short
matted hairs.
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Crosswise.
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A hair-like growth.
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The
apex divided into three lobes.
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Distinctly three
cornered and triangular in cross-section.
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With three
lobes.
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Composed of or divided into three parts.
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As if cut
off square at the apex.
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A thickened underground
storage organ derived from a root.
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A smaller tuber-like structure; speacialised root structure in some
Orchidaceae containing mycorrhizal
fungi.
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Bearing small, wart-like projections.
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With membranous, sheathing layers of tissue, such as cover the
tubers of many species in the Caladenia
alliance.
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Deeply divided into two lobes which can remain close
together or spread widely apart.
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In systematics the reference specimen or collection by
which the identity of a taxon is determined.
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An
inflorescence where the flowers radiate from a
single point, as in Cirrhopetalum
clavigerum.
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Hooked.
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A recognised taxon not yet formally named and
described.
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Wavy.
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Of different sizes.
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Of one sex
only; staminate (male) or pistillate (female).
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The apex curves upwards.
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Applied to orchids with growth
features resembling a species of
Vanda.
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Where the basic colour of a leaf or petal is broken by areas of another colour, usually white,
pale green or yellow.
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A taxonomic subgroup within a species used to differentiate variable
populations.
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Said of plants which have water-conducting
tissue.
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The whole plant communities of an area.
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Asexual
development or propagation.
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The conducting tissue of
leaves.
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A subdivision or branch of a vein.
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The layer(s) of thick, spongy cells on the
outside of a root; well developed in epiphytic
orchids.
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Velvety, covered with short soft erect
hairs.
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The pattern formed by veins.
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On the lower
side.
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Covered with warts or wartlike projections.
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|
A nonfunctioning structure that is the remnant of an organ or
appendage that was once functional in previous generations or earlier stages of
development.
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Alive and able to germinate, as of
seeds.
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Covered with long soft hairs.
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Very sticky or glutinous.
|
|
Clear elastic threads found
in pollinia.
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|
Very sticky.
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Three or
more segments (of leaves, flowers) in a circle at a node.
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Having or forming whorls or a whorl.
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A thin, membranous
expansion of an organ; in orchid seeds it can refer to the dry, papery cells
which surround the embryo; see also column wing.
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Having flat projections longitudinally along an
axis.
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Asymmetrical and irregular; a flower which
cannot be divided equally in more than one plane.
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