{"id":22,"date":"2018-02-08T20:10:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T20:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmc-dev.lsa.umich.edu\/orchid\/?p=22"},"modified":"2021-03-01T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:13:01","slug":"orchidaceae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/2018\/02\/08\/orchidaceae\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchidaceae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<b>Orchidaceae<\/b>\u00a0are a diverse and\u00a0<a title=\"Cosmopolitan distribution\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cosmopolitan_distribution\">widespread<\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Family (biology)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_(biology)\">family<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"Flowering plant\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flowering_plant\">flowering plants<\/a>, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant,\u00a0<a title=\"Common name\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Common_name\">commonly known<\/a>\u00a0as the\u00a0<b>orchid family<\/b>.<br \/>\nAlong with the\u00a0<a title=\"Asteraceae\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asteraceae\">Asteraceae<\/a>, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted\u00a0<a title=\"Species\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Species\">species<\/a>, distributed in about 763\u00a0<a title=\"Genus\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Genus\">genera<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Christenhusz-Byng2016_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orchidaceae#cite_note-Christenhusz-Byng2016-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-WCSP_3-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orchidaceae#cite_note-WCSP-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on the members of such enormous families are continually in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species nearly equals the number of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Teleostei\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teleostei\">bony fishes<\/a>\u00a0and is more than twice the number of\u00a0<a title=\"Bird\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bird\">bird<\/a>\u00a0species, and about four times the number of\u00a0<a title=\"Mammal\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mammal\">mammal<\/a>\u00a0species. The family also encompasses about 6\u201311% of all\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Seed plants\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seed_plants\">seed plants<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-4\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orchidaceae#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The largest genera are\u00a0<i><a title=\"Bulbophyllum\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulbophyllum\">Bulbophyllum<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(2,000 species),\u00a0<i><a title=\"Epidendrum\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Epidendrum\">Epidendrum<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1,500 species),\u00a0<i><a title=\"Dendrobium\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dendrobium\">Dendrobium<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1,400 species) and\u00a0<i><a title=\"Pleurothallis\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pleurothallis\">Pleurothallis<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(1,000 species).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Orchidaceae\u00a0are a diverse and\u00a0widespread\u00a0family\u00a0of\u00a0flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant,\u00a0commonly known\u00a0as the\u00a0orchid family. Along with the\u00a0Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants. The Orchidaceae have about 28,000 currently accepted\u00a0species, distributed in about 763\u00a0genera.[2][3]The determination of which family is larger is still under debate, because verified data on <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/2018\/02\/08\/orchidaceae\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":42,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-species"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2018\/02\/orchid-4.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/catch-responsive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}