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Dodson was born in Selma, California. [1] He specialized in orchidology very early in his career. Over the course of his life, he made numerous expeditions to the tropics of the Americas, covering the Andes of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, where he collected specimens and discovered new species of different genera of orchids.
Orchis is a genus in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), occurring mainly in Europe and Northwest Africa, and ranging as far as Tibet, Mongolia, and Xinjiang. [1] The name is from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις orchis , meaning "testicle", from the appearance of the paired subterranean tuberoids .
That’s about half of Florida’s orchid diversity and a fourth of the species in the U.S. and Canada. But Roger, then 32, was looking for just one: Lepanthopsis melanantha , the tiny orchid.
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [53] Lycaste skinneri has a white variety (alba) that is the national flower of Guatemala, commonly known as Monja Blanca (White Nun). Panama's national flower is the Holy Ghost orchid (Peristeria elata), or 'the flor del Espiritu Santo'.
The original title of the bulletin was American Orchid Society Bulletin from 1932 to 1995. [note 2] [11] Volume 1, Issue 1 of The American Orchid Society Bulletin was published in June 1932. [12] It was styled, "A magazine devoted to the popularizing of orchids and their culture". [12] The first editor was David Lumsden. [12]
It reflects the considerable progress in orchid taxonomy that had been made since Dressler published his classification in 1993. In the 1990s, orchid taxonomy began to be influenced by molecular phylogenetics based on DNA sequences. The first molecular phylogenetic study to include a substantial sample of orchids was published in 1999. [12]
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