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Chiloschista
Sign in to saveChiloschista, commonly known as starfish orchids and abbreviated Chsch., is a genus of usually leafless, epiphytic or lithophytic orchids found in India, Southeast Asia and Australia.
Species
Rope Orchid
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyOrchidaceae
异唇兰属（学名：Chiloschista）是兰科下的一个属，为附生兰。该属共有4种，分布于亚洲热带地区。
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 16
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Collections
- MO, NY, NHMUK, SEL, BPBM, K
- Recorded in
- Vietnam, Fiji, India, Nepal, Thailand, Australia
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- พญาไร้ใบ, เอื้องพญาไร้ใบ
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Chiloschista, commonly known as starfish orchids and abbreviated Chsch., is a genus of usually leafless, epiphytic or lithophytic orchids found in India, Southeast Asia and Australia.
==Description== Orchids in the genus Chiloschista are epiphytic or lithophytic, usually leafless monopodial herbs with flat, green, photosynthetic roots radiating from a short, central rhizome. The flowers are arranged on long, thin flowering stems, open sporadically in groups and only last for a few hours to one or two days. They are small and resupinate, with the sepals and petals more or less similar in size and shape to each other but different from the labellum which has three lobes. The side lobes of the labellum are erect and larger than the middle lobe which is slipper-shaped.
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