butterfly-orchis

Flowers were scarce, and there were not many orchids, but I noticed the fine white butterfly-orchis, Phalaenopsis grandiflora, or a species closely allied to it.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Such are the blue bird's-eye, which just colours the mowing grass in shady spots and patches near the fence, and occasionally the bee-orchis and the butterfly-orchis.

The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

White flowers are often fertilised by moths, and very frequently give out their scent only by night, as in our butterfly-orchis (Habenaria chlorantha); and they sometimes open only at night, as do many of the evening primroses and other flowers.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Flowers were scarce, and there were not many orchids, but I noticed the fine white butterfly-orchis, Phalaenopsis grandiflora, or a species closely allied to it.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

Look at this accursed diagram (Figure 9) of the butterfly-orchis [Habenaria], which I examined after writing to you yesterday, when I thought all my work done.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845