Darwin’s orchid  (Angraecum sesquipedale)

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Glossary

  • Coevolution: the evolution of two species in reaction to changes in each other.
  • Endemic: a species or taxonomic group that is only found in one particular country or geographic area.
  • Epiphytic: a plant that uses another plant, typically a tree, for its physical support, but which does not draw nourishment from it.
  • Lithophytic: a plant that grows on rocks or stony soil.
  • Pollination: the transfer of pollen grains from the stamen (male part of a flower) to the stigma (female part of a flower) of a flowering plant. This usually leads to fertilisation, the development of seeds and, eventually, a new plant.
  • Proboscis: general term for a trunk-like protrusion from the head or anterior of an animal. It is associated with feeding.
  • Spurs: slender tubular projections from orchid flowers; in some orchids the spurs are associated with nectaries.
  • Substrate: the object or material on which an organism grows or is attached.

References

  1. CITES (April, 2009)
    http://www.cites.org
  2. La Croix, I.F. (2008) The New Encyclopedia of Orchids: 1500 Species in Cultivation.Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
  3. Van der Cingel, N.A. (2001) An atlas of orchid pollination: America, Africa, Asia and Australia.A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
  4. Thompson, J.N. (1994) The Coevolutionary Process.University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  5. Niklas, K.J. (1997) The Evolutionary Biology of Plants.University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
  6. Darwin, C.R. (1862) On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.John Murray, London.
  7. Stewart, J., Hermans, J. and Campbell, B. (2006) Angraecoid Orchids: Species from the African Region.Timber Press, Portland, Oregon.
  8. Kitching, I.J. (2002) The phylogenetic relationships of Morgan’s Sphinx, Xanthopan morganii (Walker), the tribe Acherontiini, and allied long-tongued hawkmoths (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae, Sphinginae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135: 471 - 527.
  9. Rotal Botanic Gardens, Kew (June, 2009)
    http://www.kew.org/plants/orchids/madagascar.html
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