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n. - Small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids.

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  • Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water?
  • Then, there's the trap-them-quick orchid, or Coryanthes macrantha, that is nicknamed the
  • Bees visit these flowers, like those of the Coryanthes, in order to gnaw the labellum; in doing this they inevitably touch a long, tapering, sensitive projection, or, as...
  • Coryanthes maculata -- hanging from the branches of trees, and suspending in the air the singular lips of its flowers, like fairy buckets, as if for the use of the birds...
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