Peristeranthus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Asparagales
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Peristeranthus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Peristeranthus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Peristeranthus
Peristeranthus hillii, commonly known as the beetle orchid or brown fairy-chain orchid is the only species in the genus Peristeranthus from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is an epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with more or less pendulous stems, between three and ten widely spaced, leathery leaves and a large number of pale green, often spotted flowers. It mainly grows on tree trunks and thick vines in rainforest and is found between the Bloomfield River in Queensland and Port Macquarie in New South Wales.
...Peristeranthus in languages:
- Chinese
- 群鴿蘭屬
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acampe
- Adenoncos
- Aerides
- Amesiella
- Arachnis
- Biermannia
- Bogoria
- Brachypeza
- Calymmanthera
- Ceratocentron
- Chamaeanthus
- Chiloschista
- Chroniochilus
- Cleisocentron
- Cleisomeria
- Cleisostoma
- Cleisostomopsis
- Cottonia
- Cymbilabia
- Deceptor
- Dimorphorchis
- Diplocentrum
- Diploprora
- Dryadorchis
- Drymoanthus
- Dyakia
- Eclecticus
- Gastrochilus
- Grosourdya
- Gunnarella
- Holcoglossum
- Hymenorchis
- Jejewoodia
- Kipandiorchis
- Luisia
- Macropodanthus
- Megalotus
- Micropera
- Microsaccus
- Mobilabium
- Omoea
- Ophioglossella
- Papilionanthe
- Paraphalaenopsis
- Pelatantheria
- Pennilabium
- Peristeranthus
- Phalaenopsis
- Phragmorchis
- Plectorrhiza
- Pomatocalpa
- Porrorhachis
- Pteroceras
- Renanthera
- Rhinerrhiza
- Rhynchogyna
- Rhynchostylis
- Robiquetia
- Saccolabiopsis
- Saccolabium
- Santotomasia
- Sarcanthopsis
- Sarcochilus
- Sarcoglyphis
- Sarcophyton
- Schoenorchis
- Seidenfadenia
- Smithsonia
- Smitinandia
- Stereochilus
- Taeniophyllum
- Taprobanea
- Thrixspermum
- Trachoma
- Trichoglottis
- Tuberolabium
- Uncifera
- Vanda
- Vandopsis