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Octarrhena
Octarrhena, commonly known as grub orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are small, orchids with short stems, thin roots, short, thick, fleshy leaves arranged in two ranks and tiny flowers. The labellum is rigidly attached to the base of the column. There are about fifty species native to areas from Sri Lanka and Malesia to the Western Pacific.
7 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Octarrhena parvula
speciesOctarrhena parvula
Octarrhena oberonioides
speciesOctarrhena oberonioides
Octarrhena pusilla
speciesOctarrhena pusilla
Octarrhena bilabrata
speciesOctarrhena bilabrata
Octarrhena lorentzii
speciesOctarrhena lorentzii
Octarrhena torricellensis
speciesOctarrhena torricellensis
Octarrhena saccolabioides
speciesOctarrhena saccolabioides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 142474.