Miscellaneous Orchid Families
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Flickeringia is a close relative of Dendrobium, consisting of about 70 species found throughout east Asia and Pacific islands. They have very short-live flowers - many with exaggerated lips. Shown is F. fimbriata from SE Asia and many Pacific islands. This plant was grown from a small 5-6 bulbs cutting from a big clump near on a tree beside a Malaysian stream. |
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Coelogyne Lindl is a family of Malesian orchids of about 200 species, subvided into 14 Sections according to Pfitzer and Kraenzlin in 1907. There are a great many similar spieces that have been merged to become one one single species |
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Pelathantheria insectifera belongs to a small family of about 5 species from Asia mainland to Malaysia, closely related to Microptera. This species has long climbing stems, succulent leaves and long dangling roots. The flower lasts for almost a month ! |
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Vanilla is a commercially important family from which the fragrant Vanilla pods are exploited after fermentation. A few species, notably V. plantifolia from Mexico, are grown for this purpose. There are about 70 species distributed all over the tropics - Africa, Asia, Americas and the Pacifics. Many of them are large climbers rooting at the ground but the species shown is an interesting short leafless species named V. aphylla from N. Malaysia and Thailand. Actually the leaves are reduced to very tiny scales |
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Pholidata is closely related to Coelogyne (in ways I cannot fathom) and concsists of 28 species according to de Vogel's monograph (1988). Shown here is a larger species from SE Asia - P. imbricata, which is one of the few ornamental species in this genus. The inflorescence looks like a foot long pearl chain. |