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Kundgebung von Gewerkschaften, Initiativen und Parteien am Brandenburger Tor zum Equal Pay Day am 18. März 2019. Foto: Olaf Krostitz
Permanent Mission of Principality of Monaco to the UN, New York, 17 September 2022.
© ITU/J. Gorlovetskaya
Permanent Mission of Principality of Monaco to the UN, New York, 17 September 2022.
© ITU/ M. Jacobson-Gonzalez
Created Equal: A conversation about race + founding ideals + our hometown
Part of the Club of Honest Citizens series, a partnership between Leon County and the Village Square
Featured actor/playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb, in partnership with Southern Shakespeare Festival
Photo credit: Steven Saccio/Steven Saccio Photography, courtesy of Leon County
Find the event online here: tlh.villagesquare.us/event/created-equal/
Kundgebung von Gewerkschaften, Initiativen und Parteien am Brandenburger Tor zum Equal Pay Day am 18. März 2019. Foto: Olaf Krostitz
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Orchidaceae is a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and often fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering plants, with between 21,950 and 26,049 currently accepted species, found in 880 genera. Selecting which of the two families is larger is still under debate, as concrete numbers on such enormous families are constantly in flux. Regardless, the number of orchid species equals more than twice the number of bird species, and about four times the number of mammal species. The family also encompasses about 6â11% of all seed plants.The largest genera are Bulbophyllum (2,000 species), Epidendrum (1,500 species), Dendrobium (1,400 species) and Pleurothallis (1,000 species). The family also includes Vanilla (the genus of the vanilla plant), Orchis (type genus), and many commonly cultivated plants such as Phalaenopsis and Cattleya. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species in the 19th century, horticulturists have produced more than 100,000 hybrids and cultivars. The name comes from the Ancient Greek á½ÏÏÎ¹Ï (órkhis), literally meaning "testicle", because of the shape of the root. Carl Linnaeus classified the family as Orchidaceae. Orchid was introduced in 1845 by John Lindley in School Botany, due to an incorrect attempt to extract the Latin stem (orchis) from Orchidaceae. The Greek myth of Orchis explains the origin of the plants. Orchis, the son of a nymph and a satyr, came upon a festival of Dionysus (Bacchus) in the forest. He drank too much, and attempted to rape a priestess of Dionysus. For his insult, he was torn apart by the Bacchanalians. His father prayed for him to be restored, but the gods instead changed him into a flower.
These flowers were previously called Orchis, Satyrion (Satyrion feminina), or "ballockwort".
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