Genera Orchidacearum - Volume 2: Orchidoideae (Part 1)
Alec M. Pridgeon, Phillip J. Cribb, Mark W. Chase and Finn N. Rasmussen



Only in English

416 pages

Price (outside Brazil): not available for exportation

Edition 2001
The Genera Orchidacearum series represents a robust and natural classification of the orchids, something that has eluded plant scientists and orchid enthusiasts for years. The editor, who are all distinguished orchid specialists, incorporate a wealthy of new data into a truly philogenetic classification, identifying the areas and the taxa that merit additional work.

I - The origin and biogeography of Orchidaceae;
II- Orchidoideae (Part 1) Description, Distribution, Phylogenetics; Taxonomic literature; Artificial key to the tribe of Orchideoideae
A: Diseae - 11 genera (Description; Distribution; Anatomy - Stem- Tuber - Toot - Palynology - Phytochemistry; Phylogenetics - Uses - Cultivation; Artificial Key to subtribes and genera of Diseae;
B: Diurideae - 37 genera (Description; Distribution; Anatomy - Leaf - Stem- Tuber - Root - Palynology - Cytogenetics - Phylogenetics - Cultivation; Artificial Key to subtribes of Diurideae);
C- Orchideae 52 genera including Habenaria -(Description; Distribution; Anatomy - Leaf - Stem- Tuber - Root - Palynology - Cytogenetics - Phylogenetics -Pollination - Cultivation; Taxinomic notes)