Giant orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum)
Description
It is a robust plant, with two sometimes three bulbs more or less ovoid, its trunk trunk thick longitudinally striated. Its height can vary from 15 to 80 cm, but most of the time does not exceed 50 cm.Basal leaves in rosette 5 to 10 leaves, light green, broad, fleshy, bright, with parallel ribs. Cauline leaves hugging the trunk.The inflorescence is a spike first rather pyramidal, then rather cylindrical. Numerous crenadas and linear bracts can reach 3 cm. Flowers with spur facing down.The tepals are striated, surrounding the lip with variable colors from green to purple, the three external ovoids and conniventes, the two linear internal. The lip, from pink to purple, stretches, large often 2 cm, to central lobe with two linear side lobes similar to arms curved inwards. Flowers from February to April Pollination by insects entomophilia being their pollinators observed bees and bumblebeesThe fruits are capsules The dissemination of its tiny seeds is anemocora by the wind
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Himantoglossum
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