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Telipogon leisberthvelezii (Orchidaceae: Oncidiinae), a new orchid species from the Cordillera del Cóndor in Ecuador.
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Orchids flowering at Kew.
Kompalli, Bala
Orchidaceae, Cultivation, Orchids, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia.
A checklist of Orchidaceae from Caquetá, Colombia is presented here. We recorded 98 genera and 418 species, exceeding a previous inventory by 276 species. The checklist is conservative in the number of genera and species by including only taxa that were fully and reliably identified and that are either linked... -
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Evolution of Seed Dispersal Modes in the Orchidaceae: Has the Vanilla Mystery Been Solved?
Orchid seeds are predominantly wind-dispersed, often developed within dry, dehiscent fruits that typically release millions of dust-like seeds into the air. Animal-mediated seed dispersal is a lesser-known phenomenon in the family and predominantly occurs in groups belonging to early-diverging lineages bearing indehiscent, fleshy fruits with hard, rounded, dark seeds. In... -
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A new Ypsilopus (Orchidaceae, Angraecinae) from Zimbabwe and notes on the parallel evolution of extreme column exsertion in African angraecoids.
– A preliminary review of hawkmoth-pollinated angraecoids from Africa unveiled a remarkable case of parallel evolution of extreme column exsertion between the two species formerly classified in in the defunct genus . These belong to one clade of , including and , and Ypsilopus sect. Barombiella, including and . The...