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Eulophia Venosa
''Eulophia venosa'', commonly known as the pointed corduroy orchid, is a plant in the orchid Family (botany), family and is Indigenous (ecology), native to India, parts of Southeast Asia as well as New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a deciduous, Terrestrial plant, terrestrial orchid with one large and one small leaf and between six and twenty pale green or yellowish flowers with purple markings. It grows in rainforest and grassy forests. Description ''Eulophia venosa'' is a deciduous, terrestrial Herbaceous plant, herb with two dark green, narrow lance-shaped leaves long and wide, one leaf larger than the other. Between six and twenty pale green or yellowish flowers with purple markings, long and wide are borne on a wiry flowering stem long. The flowers are Resupination, resupinate and shaped like a star. The sepals are narrow triangular in shape, long, about wide and spread horizontally and widely apart from each other. The petals are elliptic in shape, long and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Heinrich Gottlieb Ludwig Reichenbach (8 January 1793 – 17 March 1879) was a German botanist and ornithologist. It was he who first requested Leopold Blaschka to make a set of glass marine invertebrate models for scientific education and museum showcasing, the successful commission giving rise to the creation of the Blaschkas' Glass sea creatures and, subsequently and indirectly, the more famous Glass Flowers. Early life Born in Leipzig and the son of Johann Friedrich Jakob Reichenbach (the author in 1818 of the first Greek-German dictionary) Reichenbach studied medicine and natural science at the University of Leipzig in 1810 and, eight years later in 1818, he the now Professor became an instructor before, in 1820, he was appointed the director of the Dresden natural history museum and a professor at the Surgical-Medical Academy in Dresden, where he remained for many years. Glass sea creatures Director of the natural history museum in Dresden, Professor Reichenbach was face ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
