Rhynchostylis
The genus Rhynchostylis, abbreviated as Rhy in horticultural trade, is a member of the Orchid family (Orchidaceae), consisting of 6 species endemic to India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
These orchids grow naturally in warm, moist, shaded tropical areas. Hobbyists wanting to grow them will need a warm, humid growing environment with gentle air movement. Their unusually fragrant blooms often appear in the slightly cooler Winter months.
Despite being in the Vanda Tribe, they are very different than Vandas. They grow more slowly, their roots are more fragile, and almost any direct sun will harm them. However, they are typically grown with no potting mix on slat baskets or mounted just like Vandas.
The Subtribe was changed from Sarcanthinae (Benth, 1881) to Aeridinae (Pfitzer, 1887) in 1972
These orchids grow naturally in warm, moist, shaded tropical areas. Hobbyists wanting to grow them will need a warm, humid growing environment with gentle air movement. Their unusually fragrant blooms often appear in the slightly cooler Winter months.
Despite being in the Vanda Tribe, they are very different than Vandas. They grow more slowly, their roots are more fragile, and almost any direct sun will harm them. However, they are typically grown with no potting mix on slat baskets or mounted just like Vandas.
The Subtribe was changed from Sarcanthinae (Benth, 1881) to Aeridinae (Pfitzer, 1887) in 1972
DESCRIPTION (FROM FLORA OF CHINA)Herbs, epiphytic, monopodial. Stems short, stout, with thick roots. Leaves many, often lorate, long and narrow, thickly fleshy, channeled, jointed and sheathing at base, unequally bilobed or toothed. Inflorescences lateral, erect or pendulous, racemose, densely many flowered; peduncle and rachis stout. Flowers resupinate, medium-sized. Sepals and petals similar, spreading; lateral sepals often wider and ± oblique. Petals smaller than sepals; lip adnate to column foot, immovable, entire or slightly 3-lobed, spurred at base; spur laterally compressed and backward-pointing. Column short, with a short foot; anther cap long pointed; rostellum long pointed; pollinia waxy, 2, globose, cleft; stipe long and narrow, apex slightly dilated; viscidium ovate, usually small
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