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Description: A lithographic color plate from Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur of 1899 showing an artist's depiction of different varieties of orchids: Odontoglossum naevium = Odontoglossum naevium Lindl. Oncidium kramerianum = Psychopsis krameriana (Rchb.f.) H.G.Jones Odontoglossum ramosissimum = Cyrtochilum ramosissimum (Lindl.) Dalström Odontoglossum schroederianum = Oncidium schroederianum (O'Brien) Garay & Stacy Cattleya ballantiniana = Cattleya × ballantiniana Rchb.f. (C. trianae Linden & Rchb.f. × C. warscewiczii Rchb.f.) Cattleya mendellii = Cattleya mendelii Dombrain Cypripedium lemoinieri = Phragmipedium × sedenii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe (P. longifolium (Warsz. & Rchb.f.) Rolfe × P. schlimii (Linden ex Rchb.f.) Rolfe) Cattleya rochellensis = Cattleya warscewiczii Rchb.f. Cypripedium leeanum = Paphiopedilum insigne (Wall. ex Lindl.) Pfitzer × P. spicerianum (Rchb.f.) Pfitzer Odontoglossum wattianum = Oncidium × wattianum (Rolfe) J.M.H.Shaw, Orchid Rev. 121 (1304, Suppl.): 77. (2013) Cattleya labiata = Cattleya labiata Epidendrum atropurpureum = Encyclia cordigera (Kunth) Dressler (1964) Cypripedium argus = Paphiopedilum argus (Rchb.f.) Stein Paphinia rugosa = Paphinia rugosa Rchb.f. Zygopetalum xanthinum = Promenaea xanthina (Lindl.) Lindl. Oncidium laxense = Oncidium loxense Lindl. / Cyrtochilum loxense (Lindl.) Kraenzl.
Title: Haeckel Orchidae
Credit: Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 74: Orchidae (see here, here, here and here)
Author: Ernst Haeckel
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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