Stanhopea

Definitions

proper noun A taxonomic genus of orchids, within subfamily Epidendroideae and family Orchidaceae.

Named for Philip Henry Stanhope, 4th Earl Stanhope, who was president of the Medico-Botanical Society of London (1829-1837).

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Stanhopea.

Stanhopea-like habit of pushing out their flowers at all sorts of deflected angles.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various
You could never have approached within two hundred paces of a _Stanhopea_, of the _epidendrum odoratum_, of the _datura grandiflora_, with its mantle of snow-white blossoms?

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850
P.S. -- If the Flowers of the Stanhopea are not too old, remove pollen-masses from their pedicels, and stick them with a little liquid pure gum to the stigmatic cavity.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
I find I can thus fertilise the flowers, and so I can with Stanhopea, and I suspect that this is the case with your

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
When one sees such adaptation as this, it would be hopeless to conjecture on the Stanhopea till we know what insect visits it.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
How insects act with your Stanhopea I will not pretend to conjecture.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
They are two plants of _Stanhopea tigrina_, exhibited by

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 447 Volume 18, New Series, July 24, 1852 Various 1836