Do you know Coryanthes, with its wonderful basket of water?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Then, there's the trap-them-quick orchid, or Coryanthes macrantha, that is nicknamed the. From Wordnik.com. [The Shad Plank] Reference
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 I have called it, the antenna. From Wordnik.com. [VI. Difficulties of the Theory. Special Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection] Reference
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 and insects that inhabit the surrounding foliage. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
…as to the candidates of irreducibly complex systems mentioned above the cilium, bacterial flagellum, blood clotting, traps of Utricularia and some other carnivorous plant genera, joints, echo location, deceptive flowers as displayed by Coryanthes and Catasetum etc., it can be confidently stated that up to now, none of these synorganized systems has been satisfactorily explained by the modern synthesis or any other evolutionary theory. From Wordnik.com. [Lonnig's "Dynamic Genomes" paper: A quick critique. - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Coryanthes see "Fertilisation of Orchids," Edition II., page 173.). From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Coryanthes, 56. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Coryanthes, "beats everything in orchids.". From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
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