Books in the Genera Orchidacearum series

Genera Orchidacearum is the first monograph of the world's orchid genera that reflects their long evolutionary history and reveals relationships based on genealogical descent and the most up-to-date DNA data.

Orchids are among the most popular and widely collected of plant families, with tropical species and hybrids being cultivated the world over. This volume includes Cypripedioideae, the slipper orchids, arguably the most attractive and popular orchids of all. It is useful both for scientists, and for orchid breeders, collectors, and enthusiasts.

Treats the first 210 genera of the largest subfamily, Epidendroideae, including some of the orchids often used in hybridizing. This book provides treatments for each genus, which include nomenclature, description, distribution, anatomy, palynology, cytogenetics, phytochemistry, phylogenetics, pollination, ecology, and economic uses.

Genera Orchidacearum is the first reference work of the world's orchid genera that reflects their long evolutionary history and reveals relationships based on genealogical descent and the most up-to-date DNA data. This fifth volume treats 186 genera of the largest subfamily, Epidendroideae.

Orchids are among the most popular and widely collected of plant families, with tropical species and hybrids being cultivated the world over. This volume covers the first 100 species of the Orchidaceae family. It is useful both for scientists and for orchid breeders, and for collectors and enthusiasts.

This sixth and final volume in the Genera Orchidacearum series treats 140 genera in tribes Dendrobieae and Vandeae of the largest subfamily, Epidendroideae, including some of the showiest orchids often used in hybridizing.