Bee Orchid

	Bee Orchid Bee orchid is a common name for several orchids and may refer to: '' Cottonia peduncularis'', a species of orchid from India and Sri Lanka '' Diuris carinata'', a species of orchid from the south-west of Western Australia '' Ida barringtoniae'', a species of orchid found in Puerto Rico ''Ophrys'', a European genus of terrestrial orchids ''Ophrys apifera ''Ophrys apifera'', known in Europe as the bee orchid, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Orchidaceae. It serves as an example of sexually deceptive pollination and floral mimicry, as well as of a highly selective and highly evolved ... '', a species in the genus ''Ophrys'', and the species from which the genus was given its English name {{Plant common name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted species, distributed in about 763 genera. (See ''External links'' below). The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species is nearly equal to the number of bony fishes, more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed plants. The largest genera are ''Bulbophyllum'' (2,000 species), ''Epidendrum'' (1,500 species), ''Dendrobium'' (1,400 species) and ''Pleurothallis'' (1,000 species). It also includes ''Vanilla'' (the genus of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Cottonia ''Cottonia'' is a monotypic genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae: the only known species is ''Cottonia peduncularis''. It is native to India and Sri Lanka. The genus was erected by Robert Wight and named after Major Frederick Cotton, an amateur botanist who served in the Madras Engineer Group and collected the species from Tellichery. A coloured illustration of the plant had been sent to Wight by Thomas C. Jerdon. This epiphytic orchid has a lip shaped like a hairy bee (as in the well-known ''Ophrys apifera'') giving it the name of bee-orchid but, unlike species in the genus ''Ophrys'', no specific bee pollinator has been identified. It was first described as ''Vanda peduncularis'' by Lindley.Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P., Chase, M.W. & Rasmussen, F.N. (Eds) (2014) Genera Orchidacearum Volume 6: Epidendroideae (Part 3); page 168 ff., Oxford: Oxford University Press. See also * List of Orchidaceae genera This is a list of genera in the orchid family ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Diuris Carinata ''Diuris carinata'', commonly known as the tall bee orchid, is a species of orchid that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has between four and six leaves and up to seven large, bright yellow flowers with reddish-brown markings. Description ''Diuris carinata'' is a tuberous, perennial herb with between four and six erect leaves long and wide. Between two and seven bright yellow flowers with reddish brown markings, about long and wide are borne on a flowering stem tall. The dorsal sepal is angled upwards, long, wide and tapered. The lateral sepals turn downwards below the horizontal, long, wide. The petals are erect or curve backwards, long and wide on a blackish stalk long. The labellum is long and has three lobes. The centre lobe is egg-shaped to wedge-shaped, long and wide. The side lobes are long and wide and spread apart from each other. There are two parallel callus ridges long at the base of the mid-line of the labellum and outlined with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ida Barringtoniae Ida or IDA may refer to: Astronomy Ida Facula, a mountain on Amalthea, a moon of Jupiter 243 Ida, an asteroid International Docking Adapter, a docking adapter for the International Space Station Computing Intel Dynamic Acceleration, a technology for increasing single-threaded performance on multi-core processors Interactive Disassembler (now ''IDA Pro''), a popular software disassembler tool for reverse engineering Interactive Data Analysis, a software package for SPSS Interchange of Data across Administrations (IDA), a predecessor programme to the IDABC in European eGovernment Film and television '' ID:A'', a 2011 Danish film * ''Ida'' (film), a 2013 Polish film Ida Galaxy, a fictional galaxy in the ''Stargate'' TV series Greek mythology Ida (mother of Minos), daughter of Corybas, the wife of Lycastus king of Crete, and the mother of the "second" king Minos of Crete Ida (nurse of Zeus), who along with her sister Adrasteia, nursed Zeus on Crete Mount Ida, a sacred m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Ophrys The genus ''Ophrys'' is a large group of orchids from the alliance Orchis in the subtribe Orchidinae. They are widespread across much of Europe, North Africa, Caucasus, the Canary Islands, and the Middle East as far east as Turkmenistan. These plants are remarkable in that they successfully reproduce through pseudocopulation, that is, their flowers mimic female insects to such a degree that amorous males are fooled into mating with the flowers, thereby pollinating them. There are many natural hybrids. They are referred to as the "bee orchids" due to the flowers of some species resemblance to the furry bodies of bees and other insects. Their scientific name ''Ophrys'' is the Greek word for "eyebrow", referring to the furry edges of the lips of several species. ''Ophrys'' was first mentioned in the book "Natural History" by Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD). Biology They are terrestrial or ground orchids from central to South Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor, up to the Caucasus Mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]