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Oberonia Gammiei
''Oberonia'', commonly known as fairy orchids, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus are epiphytic or lithophytic plants with the leaves arranged fan-like, overlapping at the base and spreading near the tips. Large numbers of tiny, short-lived, cup-shaped, non-resupinate flowers are arranged on an arching flowering stem that emerges from the base of the uppermost leaf. There are about 270 species occurring from tropical and southern Africa to the Pacific. Description Orchids in the genus ''Oberonia'' are epiphytic or lithophytic, sympodial herbs with the leaves in an unusual fan-like arrangement, in two overlapping rows near the base before spreading. A large number of tiny, non-resupinate, short-lived flowers are arranged in whorls or spirals along an arching flowering stem. The sepals and petals are all more or less similar to and free from each other although the petals are narrower than the sepals. The labellum is rigidly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oberonia Titania
''Oberonia titania'', commonly known as the soldier's crest orchid or red-flowered king of the fairies, is a plant in the orchid Family (botany), family and is a clump-forming epiphyte. It has between four and ten leaves in a fan-like arrangement on each shoot and up to 350 tiny pinkish to red flowers arranged in Whorl (botany), whorls around the flowering stem. It is found in Java, New Caledonia and eastern Australia including Norfolk Island. Description ''Oberonia titania'' is an epiphytic, clump-forming Herbaceous plant, herb. Each shoot has between four and ten fleshy, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, green or greyish leaves long and wide with their bases overlapping. Between 50 and 350 pinkish to red flowers about long and wide are arranged in whorls of between six and eight on an arching to hanging flowering stem long. The sepals and petals are egg-shaped, spread widely apart from each other and about long. The Labellum (botany), labellum is cup shaped, about long and wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbaceous Plant
Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground. This broad category of plants includes many perennials, and nearly all annuals and biennials. Definitions of "herb" and "herbaceous" The fourth edition of the ''Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'' defines "herb" as: #"A plant whose stem does not become woody and persistent (as in a tree or shrub) but remains soft and succulent, and dies (completely or down to the root) after flowering"; #"A (freq. aromatic) plant used for flavouring or scent, in medicine, etc.". (See: Herb) The same dictionary defines "herbaceous" as: #"Of the nature of a herb; esp. not forming a woody stem but dying down to the root each year"; #"BOTANY Resembling a leaf in colour or texture. Opp. scarious". Botanical sources differ from each other on the definition of "herb". For instance, the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation includes the condition "when persisting over more than one growing season, the parts o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
