Australian Indigenous Orchids: The epiphytes, the tropical terrestrial species, by A.W. DockrillSociety for Growing Australian Plants, 1969 - Botany |
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acuminate Anther apex apical ARETHUSEAE Aust Australia Australian species basal base bracts broad Bulbophyllum Cape York Peninsula caudicles Column and labellum column foot curved decurved deflexed Dendrobium dilated disc Dockr Dorsal sepal epiphytic erect extending F. M. Bail FitzG fleshy front to scale GENUS Guinea inch in diam inches long indicated scale inflorescences keels labellum Labellum flattened lamina lateral lobes Lateral sepals leaf leaves length lithophytic margins Median longitudinal section mentum midlobe Muell narrow NEOTTIEAE oblong obovate obtuse ovary ovate pedicels peduncle Pollinarium Pollinia Pollinium pseudobulbs purple Queensland racemes rain forest Reichb retinaculum rhachis rhizome Rostellum rostrum Rupp Sarcanthinae scale x 20 section of column sepals and petals short side to scale slender slightly South Wales south-eastern spur stems Stigma stipe SUBTRIBE Dendrobiinae GENUS sympodium tapered thick TRIBE EPIDENDREAE SUBTRIBE TRIBE VANDEAE SUBTRIBE trilobate usually VANDEAE yellow ان