Luisia
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Read about Luisia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Luisia (after Don Luis de Torres, Spanish botanist). Orchidaceae. Curious epiphytic orchids, grown indoors. Stems with simple or branched erect sts. bearing alternate, elongated, fleshy-terete lvs.: fls. sessile, on short lateral spikes; sepals and petals sub-similar, connivent or half-spreading; labellum adnate to the column, somewhat concave, with small lateral lobes and a large, spreading, entire or bifid middle lobe; column short; pollinia 2, on a broad, short pedicel. —About 20 species in Trop. Asia, the Malay Archipelago, and Japan. These plants are rarely cult. They grow well in any warm or intermediate house, requiring the treatment given to aerides. A few of the species are listed by orchid specialists, but are not in the general popular trade. L. Amesiana.Rolfe. Habit of Vanda teres: fls. rather large, in clusters at sides of st.; sepals and petals pale yellow, brown outside; lip white, shaded yellow and spotted purple. India. G.C. III. 14:32.—L. burmanica, Lindl.-L. teretifolia.—L. platyglossa, Reichb. f.-L. teretifolia.—L. Psyche, Reichb. f. Sts. erect: lvs. about 6 in. long, quill-like: fls. axillary, in 2s; sepals and petals green; lip marked with deep purple. Burma. B.M. 5558.—L. teretifolia. Blume (L. burmanica, Lindl. L. platyglossa, Reichh. f. L. zeylanica, Lindl.). Stout, often producing very many downy roots: fls. small, chocolate-brown, in few-fld. clusters; petals and sepals sometimes whitish; lip convex, oblong. Burma. B.M. 3648 (as Cymbidium triste).
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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