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Orchidelirium, also called orchidomania or orchid fever, is the name given to the Victorian era's flower madness for collecting and discovering orchids. Wealthy orchid fanatics of the 19th century sent explorers and collectors to almost every part of the world in search of new varieties and species of orchids.
In the United States, it occurs from as far southwest as Texas and Oklahoma and southeast to the Florida Everglades to as far northeast as Maine and as far northwest as Minnesota. In Canada, it is found in all provinces from Newfoundland to Manitoba. It also is found in St. Pierre & Miquelon, Cuba and the Bahamas. [3] [4] [5]
The orchid family is one of the largest flowering plant families in the world. Orchids can be found on every continent except Antarctica, from the steamy jungles of Asia to the dry deserts of ...
Roger, now 79, has continued to spend much of his time chasing down and photographing the state’s most elusive flora. Florida alone boasts the greatest diversity of orchids in the continental U ...
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]
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]
[3] [4] Common names for plants in this genus include dancing-lady orchid [5] and golden shower orchid. A 2008 molecular phylogenetic study labeled the Oncidium alliance "grossly polyphyletic ." [ 6 ] In the same year, the American Orchid Society labeled the genus a "dumping ground". [ 7 ]
Vanilla, the vanilla orchids, forms a flowering plant genus of about 110 species in the orchid family (Orchidaceae). This evergreen genus occurs worldwide in tropical and subtropical regions, from tropical America to tropical Asia, New Guinea and West Africa. [1] Five species are known from the contiguous United States, all limited to southern ...