Labellum is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 157 anagrams from letters in labellum (abelllmu).
1820-30; Latin, diminutive of labrum lip; for formation see castellum
Accordingly the first impression would be that the labellum is here transformed into a sterile stamen.
The tube is not large, but it, and also the labellum, could not be darker if still to be classed as crimson.
In a similar way the petals and labellum of Odontoglossum Uro-Skinneri have been found reduced to filamentous processes.
Petals and sepals are white, and there is a white patch on the labellum.
The blossom is normal as to the proper perianth, except that the labellum is unusually papillose, bearded almost to the base.
Duchartre describes an instance wherein one of the outer sepals of Cattleya Forbesii was adherent to the labellum.
This leads me to conclude that the labellum is always a compound organ.
On either side the dark central line of the labellum is a pale blur.
In Orchidaceæ entire absence of the labellum, frequently without any other perceptible change, is of common occurrence.
Is it not curious the way the labellum sits on the top of the column?