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Crystal Orchids
Didymoplexis
Didymoplexis, commonly known as crystal orchids or as 双唇兰属 (shuang chun lan shu), is a genus of terrestrial leafless orchids in the family Orchidaceae, about twenty of which have been described. Orchids in this genus have swollen, fleshy rhizomes and thin, pale, upright fleshy flowering stems with resupinate, bell-shaped white or pale yellowish brown flowers. They are native to Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Australia and various islands of the Pacific.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Didymoplexis pallens
speciesDidymoplexis pallens
Didymoplexis micradenia
speciesDidymoplexis micradenia
Didymoplexis avaratraensis
speciesDidymoplexis avaratraensis
Didymoplexis verrucosa
speciesDidymoplexis verrucosa
Didymoplexis africana
speciesDidymoplexis africana
Didymoplexis sirichaii
speciesDidymoplexis sirichaii
Didymoplexis cornuta
speciesDidymoplexis cornuta
Didymoplexis flexipes
speciesDidymoplexis flexipes
Didymoplexis pachystomoides
speciesDidymoplexis pachystomoides
Didymoplexis recurvata
speciesDidymoplexis recurvata
Didymoplexis seidenfadenii
speciesDidymoplexis seidenfadenii
Didymoplexis torricellensis
speciesDidymoplexis torricellensis
Didymoplexis vietnamica
speciesDidymoplexis vietnamica
Didymoplexis gibbosa
speciesDidymoplexis gibbosa
Didymoplexis striata
speciesDidymoplexis striata
Didymoplexis trukensis
speciesDidymoplexis trukensis
Didymoplexis himalaica
speciesDidymoplexis himalaica
Didymoplexis obreniformis
speciesDidymoplexis obreniformis
Didymoplexis latilabris
speciesDidymoplexis latilabris
Where it lives
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 140755.