Acurninat, tapering to a point.
Anther, the part of a flower containing pollen.
Awned, bristly or bearded.
Basal, relating to or forming the base of any part of a flower or leaf
Bract, a leaf usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from which a flower-stalk arises, or any modified leaf or scale on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.
Calli, glandular hairs or appendages.
Capsule, the ovary, or that part of an orchid below the column where the seed is formed.
Channeled, grooved.
Cilia, hair-like formations, usually marginal, forming a fringe.
Clavate, club-shaped, growing gradually thicker.
Claw, the slender stem-like formation sometimes present at the base of the petals or lip of an orchid.
Column, that part of an orchid formed by the union of the stamens and pistil.
Concave, hollow and curved or rounded.
Connate, united.
Cucullate, hooded.
Cuneate, wedge-shaped, with the point at the base.
Deciduous, falling off at a certain stage of growth.
Denticulate, notched in small tooth-like projections.
Dilated, expanding, or widening into lateral wing-like appendages.
Disk, the whole surface of a part.
Dorsal, upper.
Elliptical, oblong with rounded ends.
Emarginate, with the margin notched.
Entire, applied to a part not having its margin indented.
Epiphyte, a plant that grows on other plants without deriving nourishment from them.
Falcate, bent like a sickle.
Fertilisation, the process by which in flowers the pollen causes the rudiment of a seed to become fertile or reproductive.
Flexuose, having alternate curves in opposite directions.
Galea, the upper or helmet-shaped part of certain flowers. Glabrous, having a smooth, shining surface without hairs. Glandular, having a small prominence or gland.
Labellum, the lower petal of an orchid flower, often of a curious shape, commonly called the lip.
Lamina, the blade of a leaf, or the broad expanded portion of a petal or sepal.
Lanceolate, rather narrow and tapering to a point at the top and some times at the base also.
Lateral, of or pertaining to the side of any part of a plant.
Linear, narrow, same breadth throughout.
Lip, see Labellum.
Lobe, a rounded projection or division of a leaf or petal.
Mucrone, a small, sharp point.
Orbicular, having a circular outline.
Ovary, that part below the column of an orchid containing the rudimentary seeds.
Ovate, oval, egg shaped.
Panicle, a pyramid-shaped form of flower-cluster.
Pedicel, a stalk supporting one flower or fruit.
Peduncle, the stalk of a flower-cluster.
Peltate, having the stem or support attached to the lower surface instead of the base or margin.
Perianth, of an orchid flower, the sepals and petals.
Petal, one of the inner leaves of a flower.
Pistil, the part of the flower that produces seed, consisting of an ovary and a stigma which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called the style.
Pollen, the mass of grain contained in the anther.
Pubescent, covered with fine, short hairs.
Raceme, a flower-cluster with an elongated axis or central stem, Radical, proceeding directly from the root.
Reduplicate, redoubled.
Reflexed. bent back.
Rostellum, a small button-like projection on the column of an orchid.
Saccate, pouched.
Saprophytic, feeding or growing upon decayed animal or vegetable matter.
Scale, a small appendage like a rudimentary leaf.
Sessile, without a claw or stem.
Simple, without subdivisions, entire.
Sinuate, having the margin alternately curved inward and outward.
Sinus, a depression between adjoining lobes.
Spatulate, shaped like a spatula or battledore, rounded, with a long, narrow-linear base.
Style, see pistil.
Subulate, awl-shaped.
Terrestrial, existing on or in the earth.
Truncate, abruptly terminating as though cut off at one end.
Tubercle, a small knob-like prominence.
Undulate, wavy.
Villose, covered with fine hairs.
Wing, the semi-transparent expansion usually produced, on each side of the column of an orchid.