Bulbophyllum beccarii is one of the most spectacular and remarkable members of the whole genus and indeed the Orchidaceae. It is by far the largest species in the genus and one of the largest in the family. The thick rhizome, up to 20cm in diameter snakes its way around tree trunks climbing up into the light. Along its length at intervals are the relatively small egg shaped pseudobulbs each with a huge thick, leathery leaf at their apex. They are up to 60cm long and 20cm wide, yellowish-green and point vertically. The inflorescence is produced from the rhizome near one of the pseudobulbs and hangs downwards to about 20-22cm and is composed of hundreds of small yellowish flowers netted with red that have an extremely disagreeable smell to attract various flies. It grows in the rainforests of Borneo. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae Monocotyledons or monocots are a group of flowering plants usually ranked as a class and once called the Monocotyledoneae. ... Families Thismiaceae Orchidaceae - Orchids The Orchidales used to be divided into the following families: Thismiaceae : is now considered a sister to and included in the family Burmanniaceae, which belongs to another order Dioscoreales. ... Subfamilies Apostasioideae Cypripedioideae Epidendroideae Orchidoideae Vanilloideae For genera, see list of Orchidaceae genera. ... Species List of Bulbophyllum species 1805 species, including: Bulb. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (Leipzig 1823-1889) was an ornithologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century. ... Subfamilies Apostasioideae Cypripedioideae Epidendroideae Orchidoideae Vanilloideae For genera, see list of Orchidaceae genera. ... Ginger rhizome In botany, a rhizome is a usually-underground, horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. ... The pseudobulb is a storage organ derived from the part of a stem between two leaf nodes. ... An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers on a branch of a plant. ... The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ... Borneo and Sulawesi Borneo (politically divided between Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei) is the third largest island in the world. ...

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