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Rhomboda
Rhomboda, commonly known as velvet jewel orchids, is a genus of about twenty species of flowering plants in the orchid family Orchidaceae. Plants in this genus are mostly terrestrial herbs with a fleshy, creeping rhizome and a loose rosette of green to maroon coloured leaves. Small resupinate or partly resupinate, dull coloured flowers are borne on a hairy flowering stem. The dorsal sepal and petals overlap and form a hood over the column and there is a deep pouch at the base of the labellum. They are found in tropical regions from northern India through Southeast Asia, China, Japan to Australia and some Pacific Islands.
20 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Rhomboda yakusimensis
speciesRhomboda yakusimensis
Rhomboda moulmeinensis
speciesRhomboda moulmeinensis
Rhomboda cristata
speciesRhomboda cristata
Rhomboda abbreviata
speciesRhomboda abbreviata
Rhomboda velutina
speciesRhomboda velutina
Rhomboda dennisii
speciesRhomboda dennisii
Rhomboda polygonoides
speciesRhomboda polygonoides
Rhomboda lanceolata
speciesRhomboda lanceolata
Rhomboda petelottii
speciesRhomboda petelottii
Rhomboda fanjingensis
speciesRhomboda fanjingensis
Rhomboda wardii
speciesRhomboda wardii
Rhomboda kerintjiensis
speciesRhomboda kerintjiensis
Rhomboda minahassae
speciesRhomboda minahassae
Rhomboda elbertii
speciesRhomboda elbertii
Rhomboda bantaengensis
speciesRhomboda bantaengensis
Rhomboda atrorubens
speciesRhomboda atrorubens
Rhomboda alticola
speciesRhomboda alticola
Rhomboda blackii
speciesRhomboda blackii
Rhomboda arunachalensis
speciesRhomboda arunachalensis
Rhomboda longifolia
speciesRhomboda longifolia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 773981.