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Greenleaf is an American television drama series, created by Craig Wright, which premiered June 21, 2016, on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN). The series follows the unscrupulous world of the Greenleaf family (Bishop James Greenleaf, his wife Lady Mae, and their once-estranged daughter Grace) with scandalous secrets and lies, and their sprawling Memphis megachurch with predominantly African ...
Benjamin Samuel Williams (2 March 1822 – 24 June 1890), [1] English orchidologist and nurseryman in London, known mainly for his horticultural notes on orchids in publications such as The Orchid Grower's Manual (London 1852, 7th ed. 1894), Select Orchidaceous Plants (London 1862 onwards) and The Orchid Album (London 1882–97).
The taxonomy of the Orchidaceae ( orchid family) has evolved slowly during the last 250 years, starting with Carl Linnaeus who in 1753 recognized eight genera. [ 2] De Jussieu recognized the Orchidaceae as a separate family in his Genera Plantarum in 1789. [ 3] Olof Swartz recognized 25 genera in 1800. [ 4]
Lithophytic orchids. Lithophytic orchids are found within the subfamily Epidendroideae. Many of them grow both lithophytically and epiphytically.
Orchid taxonomy is still being revised and each year about another 150 new species are being discovered. The list of genera alone currently stands just short of 1000 entries. From a cladistic point of view, the orchid family is considered to be monophyletic , i.e. the group incorporates all the taxa derived from an ancestral group.
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Description. Platanthera clavellata plants are 4-16" tall. It is one of the smallest species out of the 32 species of Platanthera common in North America. [ 2] The stem has several leaves attached of which all but the bottom-most one are greatly reduced in size. There are no branches and the stem terminates in a raceme of 5-20 flowers.
A. uniflora. Binomial name. Anguloa uniflora. Ruiz & Pav. (1798) Synonyms. Anguloa uniflora var. treyeranii Rolfe (1891) Anguloa uniflora, commonly known as the swaddled babies orchid, is a species of orchid and is the type species of its genus. [1] [2] [3]