Liparis latifolia (P1)
The pseudobulbs of Liparis
latifolia are very close together, somewhat flattened, and up to 9 cm long.
The leaves are leathery, acute, about 24 cm long and 5 cm wide. The inflorescence
is terminal, upright, slightly longer than the leaves, many flowered. The
flowers are small in size, brick red, some with a greenish tint, sepals
and petals pointing downward. The lip is recurved through 180°, with
a darker color, bilobed; its margin is erase. The pollinarium has four
pollinia.
Spathoglottis plicata
(P5)
Spathoglottis plicata is
a terrestrial orchid. The pseudobulbs are up to 7 cm long, and 5 cm wide.
The leaves have lengthwise folds (plicate), and are 30 to 120 cm long,
and 3 to 9 cm wide; the petiole is 10 to 15 cm long. The infloresence is
erect, up tp 75 cm tall. The flowers do not all open at the same time.
The flowers are white, pale pink, rose to dark purple, 3 to 5 cm in diameter.
The sepals are widely stretched out, up to about 25 mm long and 9 to 13
mm wide. The petals are similar but slightly broader than the sepals. The
lip is trilobed, having a callus between the side-lobes. The pollinarium
has eight pollinia in two groups.
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
(P2)
Cymbidium finlaysonianum
is a very large plant, growing in big clumps. The pseudobulbs are about
7 cm long and hidden by the (about) five leaves they bear. The stiff, fleshy
leaves can grow up to 80 cm long and 4 cm wide. The pendent, loosely many-flowered
inflorescence can reach more than 120 cm in length. The fleshy flowers
are up to 6 cm across. The fleshy three-lobed lip bears two thick keels
on its mid-lobe; the lateral lobes are large. The pollinarium consists
of two slit pollinia with stipes.
Phalaenopsis schilleriana
(P8)
Phalaenopsis schilleriana
has beautiful silverish grey mottled leaves which are slightly purple below
and up to 40 cm long. The inflorescence is many-flowered, erect to bent,
often branched, and up to 1 m long. The flowers, which reach 80 mm in diameter,
are purple of varying intensity. The lip is three-lobed with a callus between
the lateral lobes, with anchor-like appendages in the apical part of the
front-lobe. The pollinarium has two cleft pollinia connected to a stipe
with a large viscidium. |
