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n. - Small genus of dwarf orchids.

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  • Pleione” is an ill track and I swear I hear someone signing under the track.
  • By his wife Pleione he had seven daughters, who went by the general names of Atlantĭdes, or
  • It seems that the Pleiades are not, after all, the seven grieving daughters of Atlas and Pleione, sent up there to console them for the death of their sisters.
  • Epiphytes are numerous in this montane cloud forest environment and include Aeschynanthus, Agapetes, Rhododendron cuffeanum, various aroids, and the orchid taxa Dendrobium and...
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