New Records of Orchidaceae from Sarawak.
New Records of Orchidaceae from Sarawak. During a series of field
trips in Sarawak between 1991 and 1998 by staff of the National
Herbarium herbarium, collection of dried and mounted plant specimens used in systematic botany. To preserve their form and color, plants collected in the field are spread flat in sheets of newsprint and dried, usually in a plant press, between blotters or absorbent paper. Nederland (L), in close collaboration with the Sarawak Forest
Department (SAR (Segmentation And Reassembly) The protocol that converts data to cells for transmission over an ATM network. It is the lower part of the ATM Adaption Layer (AAL), which is responsible for the entire operation. See AAL.
SAR - segmentation and reassembly ), a considerable number of living orchid orchid, popular name for members of the Orchidaceae, a family of perennial herbs widely distributed in both hemispheres. The unusually large family (of some 450 genera and an estimated 10,000 to 17,500 species) includes terrestrial, epiphytic (see epiphyte), and specimens were
collected for cultivation cultivation, tilling or manipulation of the soil, done primarily to eliminate weeds that compete with crops for water and nutrients. Cultivation may be used in crusted soils to increase soil aeration and infiltration of water; it may also be used to move soil to or at the Leiden Hortus Botanicus Hortus botanicus is a Latin term for botanical garden. It may refer to: - Hortus Botanicus Leiden
- Hortus Botanicus (Amsterdam)
. This has
already resulted in more than one hundred new records for Sarawak and in
the description of several new species, which made their way into Beaman
et al.'s excellent Orchids of Sarawak (2001). Since this
publication, several of these living orchids have flowered for the first
time in cultivation and proved to be additional new records for Sarawak,
including three new species (Bulbophyllum grootianum J.J. Verm.,
Coelogyne renae Gravendeel and de Vogel, and C. yiii Schuit. and de
Vogel). The records for Bulbophyllum manibulare Ridl. and Dendrobium
olivaceum J.J. Sm. are particularly noteworthy, as these are striking,
large-flowered species. Spirit material of all specimens listed is
preserved at Leiden.
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