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The following taxonomy follows largely the classification system of Robert Louis Dressler, an orchid specialist and adjunct curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History. This classification, published in 1981 in the book The Orchids: Natural History and Classification , was widely accepted by botanists and growers before the publication of ...
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.
Orchids of California ... Orchids of Florida (39 P) K. Orchids of Kentucky (10 P) M. Orchids of Maryland (7 P) This page was last edited on 6 January 2014 ...
Charles Wesley Powell (1854–1927), American hobbyist and self-taught horticulturist specializing in the orchids of Panama; George Harry Pring, British born orchid and water lily specialist known for his work at the Missouri Botanical Garden; Franco Pupulin (born 1960), Italian botanist specialising in orchid taxonomy and systematics
Prosthechea cochleata is the national flower of Belize, where it is known as the black orchid. [51] 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'.
It’s part of an orchid restoration effort called the Million Orchid Project, and as the name suggests, its goal is to reseed a million native orchids in public spaces across South Florida ...
This is a list of genera in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), originally according to The Families of Flowering Plants - L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz.This list is adapted regularly with the changes published in the Orchid Research Newsletter which is published twice a year by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Pages in category "Orchids of California" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.