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Crepidium Lawleri
''Crepidium lawleri'', commonly known as the small spur orchid, is a plant in the orchid Family (botany), family and is Endemism, endemic to Tropics, tropical far north Queensland. It is an evergreen, Terrestrial plant, terrestrial orchid with an upright stem, dark green leaves and up to ten greenish cream-coloured flowers well spaced along a brittle flowering stem. Description ''Crepidium lawleri'' is a terrestrial, evergreen Herbaceous plant, herb with upright, fleshy stems and wide. There are between four and five dark green leaves with three obvious veins, long and wide. Between five and ten, greenish cream, non-Resupination, resupinate flowers are well spaced along a brittle flowering stem long. The flowers are long and wide. The sepals are about long and wide, the wikt:dorsal, dorsal sepal turned downwards and the wikt:lateral, lateral sepals spread apart from each other. The petals are a similar length to the sepals but narrower. The Labellum (botany), labellum is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Roberts (naturalist)
Lewis Roberts, OAM, (born 1950) is a distinguished naturalist and botanical illustrator. Lewis and his brother, Charlie Roberts, are probably the leading experts on the flora and fauna of south-eastern part Cape York Peninsula and the northern Wet Tropics area. For three generations his family has lived at Shipton's Flat, about 45 km south of Cooktown, where he and Charlie were home-schooled. His father, Jack Lewis, was a tin miner and self-taught naturalist. Background Since about 1960, most of the botanists and zoologists who have conducted research in their area have sought advice or field assistance from the Roberts brothers. Both are "Honoraries" to the Queensland Museum. Lewis Roberts has a particular interest in orchids, especially the species of Cape York Peninsula and the Wet Tropics. He commenced serious study in 1973. Since then, he has collected many specimens, and discovered seven new species, including an unusual orchid, known only at Shipton's Flat, fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
