The pseudobulb is a storage organ found in many epiphytic and terrestrial sympodial orchids. It is derived from a thickening of the part of a stem between...

entire stem, may be thickened to form a pseudobulb that contains nutrients and water for drier periods. The pseudobulb typically has a smooth surface with...

saprophytic herbs usually with pseudobulbs. There are usually between three and twelve leaves arranged in two ranks on each pseudobulb or shoot and lasting for...

apical meristem of the rhizome forms an ascendent swollen stem called a pseudobulb, and the apical meristem is consumed in a terminal inflorescence. Continued...

bicolor (S. India, Sri Lanka) Pseudobulb epiphyte Cymbidium bicolor subsp. obtusum (Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China). Pseudobulb epiphyte Cymbidium bicolor...

inflorescence arises from the base of each new pseudobulb. The white tulip orchids have six inflorescences per pseudobulb, the other can produce up to twelve inflorescences...

to "feed". The conical pseudobulbs are ridged and are about 8 cm long. In some species, such as Gongora similis, the pseudobulb can produce up to six inflorescences...

that typically grows up to 1.2 m (3.9 ft) tall. It has a leaf base. Its pseudobulb is spherical. The upper part of the bulb is cylindrical. The base is laterally...

crown orchid, is a species of orchid native to Asia. It often develops a pseudobulb. It is considered invasive in Florida and spreads with wood chip mulch...

Narcissus, onion Caudex – e.g. Adenium (desert-rose) Corm – e.g. Crocus Pseudobulb – e.g. Pleione (windowsill orchid) Rhizome – e.g. Iris pseudacorus (yellow...

rhizome and a pseudobulb, a feature that distinguished this genus from Dendrobium. There is usually only a single leaf at the top of the pseudobulb and from...

well-spaced pseudobulbs. Each pseudobulb has up to twenty grass-like leaves, some of the leaves having flowering stems on the opposite side of the pseudobulb, each...

 amethystoglossa is a tall plant and has pseudobulbs that grow to 3 feet (0.91 meters) tall. Each pseudobulb has two (occasionally three) leathery, green...

New Guinea and Christmas Island. It has two rows on leaves along its pseudobulb and relatively large but short-lived, strongly scented white flowers....

relatively large, spongy, almost globular or ampulliform pseudobulbs, narrowed at the apex. Every pseudobulb is only active for one year and carries one or two...

Plants in this section have moderate length thin pseudobulbs with leaves at upper two thirds of the pseudobulb. Plants from this section are found from India...

horticultural trade. Plants of the genus × Aliceara have relatively stretched pseudobulbs, from which the leaves and the long floral stem develop. The inflorescences...

from the base of the pseudobulb, with many yellow-green to olive-green, waxy flowers with dark purplish-red marks. The pseudobulbs are enveloped by sheaths...

roots and cylindrical or tapered pseudobulbs 50–1,800 mm (2–70 in) long and 10–60 mm (0.4–2 in) wide. Each pseudobulb has up to seven, usually thick, leathery...

Bulbophyllum. The pseudobulbs are conical-shaped, unifloliate and obscurely angled with a single spoon-like leaf atop each pseudobulb. Plant blooms on...

with a creeping, branching rhizome with .4" [1 cm] between each globose pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, thickly leathery, elliptic-oblong, abaxially...

or lithophytic orchid in the family Orchidaceae. It has cylindrical pseudobulbs, each with between three and five green or purplish leaves and arching...

Species in this section is are rhizomatus with one to two leaves on the pseudobulb blooming with a racemose of flowers with bracts. Plants from this section...

herbs with cylindrical roots usually arising from the base of a pseudobulb. The pseudobulbs, when present, are hard, sometimes cane-like, cylindrical or...

roots emerge from the thicker base end of the pseudobulb, which tapers towards the tip. The pseudobulbs are 5–30 cm (2–10 in) long and 1–2.5 cm (0.4–1 in)...

Species in this section is are rhizomatus with one to two leaves on the pseudobulb blooming with a racemose of flowers with bracts. Plants from this section...

increasingly larger at the base of pseudobulb becoming articulated foliar steaths that partially cover them. The pseudobulbs and leaves vary in color from...

have similar-appearing leaves, pseudobulbs and rhizomes. Both species produce one leaf per pseudobulb. The pseudobulbs of Bulbophyllum raulersoniae persist...

be used to separate the taxa), pseudobulbs with one to three leaves, several basal bracts at the base of the pseudobulbs. The flowers come in shades of...

spherical pseudobulbs each with a single leaf and up to three small creamy white to yellow flowers emerging from the base of the pseudobulb. This orchid...