Australian Tropical Rainforest Orchids

Plant habit

The general growth form of the plant.


Plants mostly or wholly pendulous: these orchids have a pendulous or dangling growth form.

Porrect:  these orchids project outward from the host, neither erect nor pendulous.

Plants erect: these orchids have an upright growth form.

Appressed to host/prostrate: these orchids either have their stems and leaves creeping and/or lying flat against the host, or the leaves grow flat against the ground.