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Pseudovanilla
Sign in to savePseudovanilla, commonly known as giant climbing orchids, is a genus of eight climbing orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus have tall climbing stems with clinging roots, leaf-like bracts and branching flowering stems with colourful, spreading sepals and petals. Species in the genus are native to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Solomons, Micronesia and Fiji.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyOrchidaceae
Pseudovanilla – rodzaj roślin jednoliściennych z rodziny storczykowatych (Orchidaceae). Obejmuje 8 gatunków spotykanych na wyspach Archipelagu Malajskiego, na Fidżi i w północno-wschodniej Australii. Kwiatostan P. foliata
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- With media
- 22
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Collections
- NY, A, AMES, NHMUK, MNHN, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Federated States Of Micronesia
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Pseudovanilla, commonly known as giant climbing orchids, is a genus of eight climbing orchids in the family Orchidaceae. Orchids in this genus have tall climbing stems with clinging roots, leaf-like bracts and branching flowering stems with colourful, spreading sepals and petals. Species in the genus are native to Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, Solomons, Micronesia and Fiji.
The genus was first formally described in 1986 by Leslie Andrew Garay in Botanical Museum Leaflets, the name Pseudovanilla meaning "false vanilla", a "reference to the casual similarity of the plants to both genera". Garay nominated Ledgeria foliata (now Pseudovanilla foliata as the type species.
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