Lithophytic Orchids

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Lithophytic orchids are orchids that grows in or on the rocks. They feed off moss, gaining nutrients in rain water, litter, and their own dead tissue.

Lithophytic orchids grow with their roots exploring the crack and crevices of suitable rocky surfaces, so that even when the rock is in a sunny place, the roots are protected from excessive drying out.


Bulbophyllum frostii - a type of lithophytic orchid
Bulbophyllum frostii - a type of lithophytic orchid
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List of Lithophytic Orchids we have described

  1. Restrepia
    A genus of epiphytic orchids distributed from southern Mexico to northern Argentina.

  2. Sarcochilus
    Sarcochilus.
    A genus of orchids found in Australia including Tasmania, and in New Caledonia.
  3. Vandopsis
    A genus of orchids found in Southeast Asia that could be terrestrial as well as lithophytic.

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