Imagine discovering a tiny orchid perched on a tree branch in a forest. It resembles an orchid you've seen before, but ...

As per taxonomic rules, the species from Norfolk Island retained the name Adelopetalum argyropus because it was the first ...

Katharina Nargar, a senior research scientist with the CSIRO at the Australian Tropical Herbarium, said orchid weevils were a particularly insidious pest, but one mostly confined to cultivated ...

The pseudo-copulation strategy of the orchid enables it to spread its genes widely. The mimicry is near-perfect. For example, the Australian hammer orchid has taken advantage of a mating ritual of ...