Dienia ophrydis
Dienia ophrydis, commonly known as the common snout orchid is a plant in the orchid family and is native to endemic to a broad area of Asia, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a deciduous, terrestrial orchid with a cone-shaped stem, bright green, wavy leaves and many greenish, brown, reddish or purplish flowers crowded on a wiry flowering stem.
Description
Dienia ophrydis is a terrestrial, deciduous herb with fleshy, cone-shaped stems and wide. There are between three and six bright green, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves long and wide with wavy edges. A large number of greenish, brown, reddish or purplish, non-resupinate flowers are crowded along a brittle, wiry flowering stem long. The flowers are long and wide. The dorsal sepal is narrow oblong, about long, wide and turns downwards. The lateral sepals are egg-shaped, about long and wide and curve around the labellum. The petals are a linear in shape and similar in size to the sepals. The labellum is broadly egg-shaped, about long and wide with three blunt teeth on the end, the middle one longest and with a deeply pouched base. Flowering occurs between December and April.Taxonomy
The common snout orchid was first formally described in 1791 by Johann Gerhard König who gave it the name Epidendrum ophrydis and published the description in Observationes botanicae :sex fasciculis comprehensae. In 1997 Gunnar Seidenfaden changed the name to Dienia ophrydis. The specific epithet is derived from the Ancient Greek word ophyrs meaning "brow" or "eyebrow".This common name of this species in Chinese is 无耳沼兰.