Monocotyledon Gallery

Cypripedium reginae, ladys slipper orchid. Also known as pi

Although the current name of this orchid is Cypripedium reginae, the name on the original plate reads Cypripedium spectabile, which may have been the name accepted at the time. Watercolour by Franz Andreas Bauer ca.1810-1840. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

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18th Century, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Asparagales, Bauer, Botanical, Cypripedioideae, Cypripedium, Cypripedium Reginae, Flower, Flowering Plant, Flowers, Francis, Francis Bauer, Illustration, Lady, Lady Slipper Orchid, Long, Magnoliophyta, Monocot, Monocotyledon, Orchid, Orchidaceae, Orchids, Pink, Pink And White Orchid, Plant, Slipper, Slipper Orchid

Purple-throated hummingbirds, male

In a fascinating example of sexual dimorphism and plant-animal relationships: the male hummingbird with a larger body and short, straight bill pollinates this species Heliconia while the female is adapted to pollinate another. Aquatint etching by Bryan Poole, 2008

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2000s, 2008, 21st Century, Adapted, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Animal, Apodiformes, Aquatint Etching, Aves, Bird, Bryan Poole, Carib, Commelinid, Etching, Eulampis, Eulampis Jugularis, Evolution, Evolved, Flowering Plant, Flying, Heliconia, Heliconia Caribaea, Heliconiaceae, Historical, History, Humming Bird, Hummingbird, Lobster Claw, Magnoliophyta, Male, Monocot, Monocotyledon, Plant, Pollinate, Pollination, Pollinator, Poole, Purple Throated Carib, Purple Throated Hummingbird, Red, Sauropsid, Sauropsida, Sexual Dimorphism, Trochilidae, Two, Zingiberales

Phormium tenax, New Zealand flax

A watercolour commissioned by Sir Joseph Banks and sketched by Sydney Parkinson during the Endeavour Voyage. Parkinson died at sea before he could complete it, and it was finished by Frederick Nodder years later

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1743 1820, 18th Century, Angiosperm, Angiospermae, Asparagales, Australasia, Banks, Common Flax, Dianellaceae, Dicot, Dicotyledon, Eudicot, Eurosid, Fabidae, Flax, Flowering Plant, Illustration, Linaceae, Linum, Linum Usitatissimum, Magnoliophyta, Malpighiales, Monocot, Monocotyledon, New Zealand, New Zealand Flax, Phormium, Phormium Tenax, Plant, Red, Rosid