brassia
Noun
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Genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids (synset 112068055)
is a type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym:
- brassia lawrenceana, spider orchid - South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers
- brassia verrucosa, spider orchid - Central American orchid having spiderlike flowers with prominent green warts
belongs to: family orchidaceae, orchid family, orchidaceae - enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowerssame as: genus brassia
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