Anoectochilus regalis (Anoectochilus regalis)
Description
Anoectochilus is a genus of about 50 species of terrestrial orchids and occasionally lithophytes of the Cranichideae tribe of the family Orchidaceae. They are distributed in Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands. These small terrestrial orchids are found in the deep shadow of moist forests. They are found in East Asia, from the Himalayas, Sri Lanka, India, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Pacific Islands. These are terrestrial herbaceous plants in which the leaves are very attractive for their velvety appearance of various shades of green with colored veins of silvery gray, purple, brown, yellow or orange. These species produce inflorescences with few flowers but large in size compared to the total of the plant. The flowers are resupinadas , the petals and sepals are free. The petals next to the dorsal sepal form a kind of cap. The lip is larger than the sepals and the hooks of the lip have filiform segments on each side that emerge from their internal part. The margins of the lip are rolled. The base is saculiform containing two small protuberances. They have 2 stigmas and 2 pollinia. These species are very cultivated more for the attractiveness of their leaves than for their flowers.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Anoectochilus
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