ABSTRACT
A hybrid is the offspring of two genetically different parents. In the true botanical sense an intraspecific hybrid is made by crossing two plants from the same species that are not related in terms of being divisions of the same plant or propagated from the same plant through tissue culture. A description of the flower structure of orchids is given in order to obtain a better understanding of the mechanism of pollination which serves to unite the reproductive cell of the seed parent with the male reproductive nucleus contained in the pollen grain. Generally flowers of the monocotyledonous group of plants other than orchids have a female reproductive structure consisting of the stigma, style and ovary. The male reproductive structures are borne in the same flower and each consists of the filament and anther. This basic orchid flower structure is modified in the various genera to make best use of their respective pollinators.
