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Orchid
Biology Reviews and Perspectives, II Foto ilustrativa Not
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This volume is the second volume in an important new series that brings
together and critically reviews both recent and classical information
on orchids - the largest family of flowering plants. Two eminent Orchidologists open the book with a colorfulaccount of their collecting expedition on the top of Auyán-tepui, one of the largest of Venezuela's enormous 'Lost World' sandstone table mountains, where they tracked down approximately 140 dpeies. The next article deals with the orchids of China, a country in which the cultivation and use of orchids have a long history. it may well be the first review on Chinese orchids to appear on the West for many years. |
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