A reference section with categories and short explanations.
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A thickened part of the stem in sympodial orchids. They serve as reservoirs of nutrients and water in case of prolonged drought, which is characteristic of plants that lead an epiphytic lifestyle. Bulbs have various shapes, depending on th…
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(From Latin Callus – thick skin, a callus) — tissue that forms on the surface of a wound and promotes healing of the injury. Adventitious roots are often initiated in the callus.
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An organ unique to orchids, formed by the fusion of the stamens (one or two) with the style and stigma of the pistil.
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Orchids whose flower has two fertile (i.e., pollen-producing) stamens.
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(From Greek Epi – on, phyton – plant) — a plant that lives on trees or shrubs and uses them only as support, but does not parasitize them.
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A plant that grows on the ground (and not on rocks or trees). Gynostemium — see Column.
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From Latin hibrida , hybrida - a mixture, an organism (cell) obtained as a result of the combining of genetic material of genotypically different organisms (cells), i.e., hybridization. In natural populations of cross-pollinating plants pr…
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A hybrid obtained by crossing species or cultivars belonging to different genera.
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A hybrid formed as a result of crossing two species belonging to the same genus.
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One of the perianth segments, differing from the others in shape, often in color and size.
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(From Greek Lithos – stone, phyton – plant) — a plant growing on stones and rocks.
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From Greek meristos — "divisible" — the formative tissue of plants that retains for a long time the ability to divide and give rise to new cells; it is characterized by high metabolic activity. Some meristem cells — initials — remain at an…
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Orchids in which the flower retains only a single fertile (i.e., pollen-producing) stamen.
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From myco... and Greek rhiza – root, - fungus-root, a symbiosis of a fungus's mycelium and the roots of a higher plant. Mycorrhizae are distinguished as ectotrophic, in which the fungus envelops the root, remaining on its surface, and endo…
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From myco... and ...troph — plants that have mycorrhizae on their roots and extract nutrients from the soil by means of fungal hyphae symbiotically associated with the roots. Mycotrophic plants – all gymnosperms, the majority of monocots (…
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From Greek pelorios – monstrous - a flower with a regular (actinomorphic) corolla, unlike other flowers of the same plant that have irregular (zygomorphic) corollas. A peloric flower develops at the top of an inflorescence. It is possible …
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Response of plants to the ratio of light and dark periods of the day.
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Young plant formed on the mother plant without fertilization.
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From Latin pollen, genitive pollinis — fine powder, pollen, a specialized structure adapted for the transfer of large masses of pollen by insects or birds onto the stigma of a flower. It consists of a pollinium, a stalk (caudicle), and a v…
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From Latin pollen, genitive pollinis — fine flour, pollen; the pollen grains of one half of an anther (theca), glued into a common mass by a special substance — viscin; part of a pollinarium. When germinating on the stigma, pollinia form a…
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The territory within which a particular species, genus, or family of plants naturally occurs.
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Also: rhizome – rhizome - a subterranean, more or less perennial shoot of perennial herbaceous plants, as well as shrubs, serving for the storage of reserve substances, vegetative renewal and reproduction. It differs from a root by the pre…
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(From Greek sapros – rotten, phyton – plant) — an achlorophyllous plant that feeds on organic substances of dead plants or on secretions of living ones. Saprophytic orchids obtain nutrients from the soil by means of a mycorrhizal fungus.
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A plant whose main axis is a system of shoots with limited apical growth arising from the lateral buds of the shoots of the previous order.
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(Against pests and diseases) — protective agents absorbed by the plant through the root system and enhancing its immunity.
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Natural tension of plant cells. A plant can live only when its water balance is maintained, i.e., when the amount of water entering the plant is not less than that being used. When water is used faster (during intense evaporation), the cel…
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Hygroscopic tissue of dead, air-filled cells that envelops the aerial roots of epiphytic orchids and is capable of absorbing rainwater, dew, and moisture from the air.
