My #MargaretFlocktonAward illustration just published, weird little Gastrodia agnicellus, a new orchid from Madagascar described by Johan Hermans in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine. Photo credit ...

Gastrodia agnicellus has been called the ugliest orchid in the world by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Orchids are usually seen as beautifully coloured flowers, but a newly discovered species from ...

Fungi-eating orchids were found for the first time to offer their flowers to fungi-eating fruit flies in exchange for pollination, which is the first evidence for nursery pollination in orchids.

The flower of a newly discovered orchid species from Madagascar called Gastrodia agnicellus. It's looks are, shall we say, unconventional. Rick Burian Discerning botanists have dubbed a newly ...

Gastrodia agnicellus, which the Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew have dubbed "the world's ugliest orchid." Rick Burian/RBG Kew 2020-12-19T09:00:00Z ...

Suetsugu K (2016) Gastrodia kuroshimensis (Orchidaceae: Epidendroideae: Gastrodieae), a new mycoheterotrophic and complete cleistogamous plant from Japan. Phytotaxa 278 (3): 265–272.

The first Gastrodia orchid found in Sri Lanka was G. zeylanica, described way back in 1906, and the second, G. gunatillekeorum, identified in 2020, after 114 years since the identification of the ...