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Polystachya
''Polystachya'', abbreviated Pol in horticultural trade, and commonly known as yellowspike orchid, is a flowering plant genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This rather distinctive genus was described by William Jackson Hooker in 1824 and is the type genus of the subtribe Polystachyinae. It contains about 100 species widespread across many of the tropical areas of the world. Species ''Polystachya'' species accepted by the Plants of the World Online as of February 2021: *'' Polystachya aconitiflora'' *'' Polystachya acridolens'' *'' Polystachya acuminata'' *'' Polystachya adansoniae'' *'' Polystachya aethiopica'' *'' Polystachya affinis'' *'' Polystachya albescens'' *'' Polystachya alicjae'' *''Polystachya alpina'' *''Polystachya anastacialynae'' *'' Polystachya anceps'' *'' Polystachya angularis'' *'' Polystachya anthoceros'' *'' Polystachya armeniaca'' *'' Polystachya asper'' *'' Polystachya aurantiaca'' *'' Polystachya bamendae'' *'' Polystachya bancoens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plants Described In 1881
Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclude the fungi and some algae, as well as the prokaryotes (the archaea and bacteria). By one definition, plants form the clade Viridiplantae (Latin name for "green plants") which is sister of the Glaucophyta, and consists of the green algae and Embryophyta (land plants). The latter includes the flowering plants, conifers and other gymnosperms, ferns and their allies, hornworts, liverworts, and mosses. Most plants are multicellular organisms. Green plants obtain most of their energy from sunlight via photosynthesis by primary chloroplasts that are derived from endosymbiosis with cyanobacteria. Their chloroplasts contain chlorophylls a and b, which gives them their green color. Some plants are parasitic or mycotrophic and have lost the ability t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
