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× Potinara
× ''Potinara'', abbreviated Pot in the horticultural trade, is the nothogenus comprising those intergeneric hybrids of orchids which have '' Brassavola'', ''Cattleya'', ''Laelia'' and ''Sophronitis'' as parent genera. It can easily be imagined that a combination of all the desirable qualities of the four genera would be an outstandingly handsome thing. However, plants in which all the desired qualities show up occur in only a small proportion of the offspring, and the percentage of plants homozygous for all qualities even less often. A rather extensive breeding program would be necessary to achieve the ideal results. Many lovely combinations do occur in × ''Potinara'' crosses, although relatively few have been made. The search for a way to breed large red hybrids has been given a new boost with the discovery of '' Cattleya milleri''. It is hoped that this species will not offer the genetic difficulties that have plagued hybridists using ''Sophronitis''. Some encouraging resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plantae
Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water, using the green pigment chlorophyll. Exceptions are parasitic plants that have lost the genes for chlorophyll and photosynthesis, and obtain their energy from other plants or fungi. Most plants are multicellular, except for some green algae. Historically, as in Aristotle's biology, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi. Definitions have narrowed since then; current definitions exclude fungi and some of the algae. By the definition used in this article, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (green plants), which consists of the green algae and the embryophytes or land plants (hornworts, liverworts, mosses, lycophytes, ferns, conifers and other gymnosperm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattleya
''Cattleya'' () is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals. Description Epiphyte, Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with cylindrical rhizome from which the fleshy noodle-like roots grow. Pseudobulbs can be conical, spindle-shaped or cylindrical; with upright growth; one or two leaves growing from the top of them. The leaves can be oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, somewhat fleshy, with smooth margin. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme with few or several flowers. Flowers have sepals and petals free from each other; the Labellum (botany), lip or labellum (lowermost petal), usually has a different coloration and shape from the rest of the flower and covers in part the Column (botany), flower column forming a tube. There are four pollinia (bag-like organs that contain pollen). The fruit is a capsule with many small seeds.Schweinfurth, C., "Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru", ''Fieldiana, Botany'' 30(3): 535 Taxonomy The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grex (horticulture)
The term ''grex'' (plural ''greges'' or ''grexes''; abbreviation gx), derived from the Latin language, Latin noun , , meaning 'flock', has been expanded in botanical nomenclature to describe hybrids of orchids, based solely on their parentage. Grex names are one of the three categories of plant names governed by the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants; within a grex the ''cultivar group'' category can be used to refer to plants by their shared characteristics (rather than by their parentage), and individual orchid plants can be selected (and propagated) and named as cultivars. Botanical nomenclature of hybrids The horticultural nomenclature of grexes exists within the framework of the botanical nomenclature of hybrid plants. Interspecific hybrids occur in nature, and are treated under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants as nothospecies, ('notho' indicating hybrid). They can optionally be given Linnean Binomial nomenclature, bin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhyncholaelia
''Rhyncholaelia'', abbreviated ''Rl.'' in the horticultural trade, is a genus of orchids (family Orchidaceae), comprising two species. They are distributed in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, .... Both species were originally published in '' Brassavola'' by Lindley. In 1918, Schlechter erected the new genus ''Rhyncholaelia'' and moved ''Brassavola digbyana'' Lindl. 1846 and ''Brassavola glauca'' Lindl. 1839 into it.Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt (in German) (2nd ed.). C. Heinrich. 1918. p. 477. Species *'' Rhyncholaelia digbyana '' (Lindl.) Schltr. *'' Rhyncholaelia glauca'' (Lindl.) Schltr. Hybrids *Rl. Aristocrat (= Rl. ''glauca'' × Rl. ''digbyana''), registered by M. Roccaforte (1973) as ''Bra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarianthe
''Guarianthe'', abbreviated ''Gur.'' in the horticultural trade, is a small genus of epiphytic orchids, growing in wet forests in Mexico, Central America, Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad. It was separated from the bifoliate ''Cattleya''s in 2003, based on phylogenetic studies of nuclear DNA sequence data. Species Natural hybrid *''Guarianthe x laelioides, Guarianthe × laelioides'' (Lem.) Van den Berg 2015 = ''Guarianthe aurantiaca, Gur. aurantiaca'' × ''Guarianthe skinneri, Gur. skinneri'' – Chiapas, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua References * (1809) Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, publié par la Société Philomatique de Paris 1: 318. * (2009) Epidendroideae (Part two). Genera Orchidacearum 5: 71 ff. Oxford University Press. External links * * {{Taxonbar, from=Q134721 Guarianthe, Laeliinae genera Epiphytic orchids ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
× Sophrocattleya
''Cattleya'' () is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals. Description Epiphyte, Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with cylindrical rhizome from which the fleshy noodle-like roots grow. Pseudobulbs can be conical, spindle-shaped or cylindrical; with upright growth; one or two leaves growing from the top of them. The leaves can be oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, somewhat fleshy, with smooth margin. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme with few or several flowers. Flowers have sepals and petals free from each other; the Labellum (botany), lip or labellum (lowermost petal), usually has a different coloration and shape from the rest of the flower and covers in part the Column (botany), flower column forming a tube. There are four pollinia (bag-like organs that contain pollen). The fruit is a capsule with many small seeds.Schweinfurth, C., "Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru", ''Fieldiana, Botany'' 30(3): 535 Taxonomy The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
× Sophrolaeliocattleya
× ''Sophrolaeliocattleya'' (from ''Sophronitis'', ''Laelia'' and ''Cattleya'', its parent genera) is a Hybrid name, nothogenus of artificial intergeneric orchid Hybrid (biology), hybrids. It is abbreviated as Slc. in the horticultural trade. As of 2008, × ''Sophrolaeliocattleya'' is defunct, with the genus ''Sophronitis'' having been merged into ''Cattleya''. Anatomy, morphology and habit × ''Sophrolaeliocattleya'' often shows the influence of its ''Sophronitis'' parent strongly; its flowers tend to range through yellow-orange to red, they tend to be smaller, and the general habit (biology), habit of the plant tends to be comparatively compact, all characteristics shared with ''Sophronitis''. Etymology and taxonomic history This nothogenus, nothogeneric epithet is derived by putting together the component genera: ''Sophronitis'' (combining form -), ''Laelia'' (combining form -) and ''Cattleya''; it is capitalized and is not italicized because it is a nothogeneric epith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brassavola Nodosa
''Brassavola nodosa'' is a small, tough species of orchid native to Mexico (from Tamaulipas south to Chiapas and the Yucatán Peninsula), Central America, the West Indies, and northern South America (Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana and French Guiana). It is also known as "lady of the night" orchid due to its citrus and gardenia-like fragrance which begins in the early evening. It has been widely hybridized and cultivated for its showy flowers and pleasing scent. Scent ''Brassavola nodosa'' is known for its exceptionally strong fragrance, which is emitted primarily after dark to attract night-pollinating moths. As is typical for moth-pollinated flowers, the scent of ''B. nodosa'' is described as "white floral". It is dominated by linalool, benzoates, salicylate Salicylic acid is an organic compound with the formula HOC6H4COOH. A colorless (or white), bitter-tasting solid, it is a precursor to and a metabolite of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). It is a plant hormone, and has b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cattleya Milleri
''Cattleya'' () is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals. Description Epiphyte, Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with cylindrical rhizome from which the fleshy noodle-like roots grow. Pseudobulbs can be conical, spindle-shaped or cylindrical; with upright growth; one or two leaves growing from the top of them. The leaves can be oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, somewhat fleshy, with smooth margin. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme with few or several flowers. Flowers have sepals and petals free from each other; the Labellum (botany), lip or labellum (lowermost petal), usually has a different coloration and shape from the rest of the flower and covers in part the Column (botany), flower column forming a tube. There are four pollinia (bag-like organs that contain pollen). The fruit is a capsule with many small seeds.Schweinfurth, C., "Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru", ''Fieldiana, Botany'' 30(3): 535 Taxonomy The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophronitis
''Cattleya'' () is a genus of orchids from Costa Rica south to Argentina. The genus is abbreviated C in trade journals. Description Epiphytic or terrestrial orchids with cylindrical rhizome from which the fleshy noodle-like roots grow. Pseudobulbs can be conical, spindle-shaped or cylindrical; with upright growth; one or two leaves growing from the top of them. The leaves can be oblong, lanceolate or elliptical, somewhat fleshy, with smooth margin. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme with few or several flowers. Flowers have sepals and petals free from each other; the lip or labellum (lowermost petal), usually has a different coloration and shape from the rest of the flower and covers in part the flower column forming a tube. There are four pollinia (bag-like organs that contain pollen). The fruit is a capsule with many small seeds.Schweinfurth, C., "Orchidaceae, Orchids of Peru", ''Fieldiana, Botany'' 30(3): 535 Taxonomy The genus was named in 1824 by John Lindley aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laelia
''Laelia'' is a small genus of 25 species in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). ''Laelia'' species are found in areas of subtropical or temperate climate in Central America, Central and South America, but mostly in Mexico. ''Laelia'' is abbreviated ''L.'' in the horticultural trade. Description Mostly epiphyte herbs (with a few lithophytes) with laterally compressed pseudobulbs. One to four leathery or fleshy leaf, leaves are born near the top of each pseudobulb, and can be broadly ovate to oblong. The inflorescence is a terminal raceme (rarely a panicle). The flowers have 8 pollinium, pollinia; petals are of a thinner texture than the sepals; sepals and petals are of similar shape, but the sepals being narrower; the Labellum (botany), lip or labellum is free from the arched flower Column (botany), column. Distribution Species of ''Laelia'' can be found from western Mexico south to Bolivia, from sea level to mountain forests. Taxonomy The genus ''Laelia'' was described as part o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brassavola
''Brassavola'' is a genus of 21 orchids (family Orchidaceae). They were named in 1813 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown. The name comes from the Italian nobleman and physician Antonio Musa Brassavola. This genus is abbreviated B. in trade journals. These species are widespread across Mexico, Central America, the West Indies and South America. They are epiphytes, and a few are lithophytes. A single, apical and succulent leaf grows on an elongated pseudobulb. The orchid yields a single white or greenish white flower, or a raceme of a few flowers. The three sepals and two lateral petals are greenish, narrow and long. The base of the broad, sometimes fringed lip partially enfolds the column. This column has a pair of falciform (sickle-shaped) ears on each side of the front and contains twelve (sometimes eight) pollinia. Most ''Brassavola'' orchids are very fragrant, attracting pollinators with their citrusy smell. But they are only fragrant at night, in order to attract the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
