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Slipper Orchid
Cryptostylis ovata
Cryptostylis ovata, commonly known as the slipper orchid or western tongue orchid, is an orchid endemic to Western Australia. It is a common, summer flowering species with dark green leaves with a white central vein and up to fifteen pale greenish flowers with a brownish red labellum with a network of darker veins.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.316
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.365
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.228
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.225
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.226
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.133
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.200
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.200
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.6
In the stacks
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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 550012.