Phalaenopsis is a 12 letter English word.
You can make 1196 anagrams from letters in Phalaenopsis (aaehilnoppss).
New Latin (1825), equivalent to Greek phál(l)ain(a) moth + -opsis -opsis; reflecting the popular name moth orchid
This is important, as it explains all the astounding projections on the labellum of Oncidium, phalaenopsis, etc.
Messrs. Rollison had sent an agent to collect phalaenopsis there, who presently reported a scarlet species!
The phalaenopsis, they said, abounded within a few hundred yards, and the Aerides was common enough.
That was phalaenopsis Sanderiana; rather purple than red, but certainly the flower so long sought.
The story of phalaenopsis Sanderiana is a striking instance.
Further back in the mountains I came across some fine species of phalaenopsis.
But after negotiation some of the men led Roebelin to see the phalaenopsis.
The glimpse of that Aerides and the assurance of a red phalaenopsis made him impatient.
The discovery of phalaenopsis Sanderiana was an interesting event; nor for botanists alone.
Under these remarkable circumstances some scores of phalaenopsis were thriving as I never saw them elsewhere.
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