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With membership one receives a copy of the society's book Your First Orchid and the Orchid Source Directory. [22] The book Ultimate Orchid [note 4] was written by Thomas Sheenan in association with the AOS and the Smithsonian Institution. [23] [24] Paul H. Allen was a long time publication consultant for the AOS. [25]
Rudolf Schlechter (1872–1925), German taxonomist, botanist and author of several works on orchids; Alexander Skutch; Paul Carpenter Standley, American botanist, specializing in the flora of Central America, including orchids; Olof Swartz (1760–1818), Swedish botanist and taxonomist, and the first specialist of orchid taxonomy
The Orchid Conservation Coalition is a coalition of orchid societies, businesses, and non profit conservation organizations. The keyword is coalition. The coalition revolves around a set of agreements which are opt in or opt out. For orchid societies and small businesses the agreements are good faith.
Orchid seeds are very small (0.35mm to 1.50mm long), spindle-shaped, and have an opening at the pointed end. [5] Each seed has an embryo that is undifferentiated and lacks root and shoot meristems. [3] An orchid seed does not have enough nutritional support to grow on its own, and lacks endosperm. [2]
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 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, maintained by the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, is recognized by the American Orchid Society as the definitive authority on orchid taxonomy. The Checklist currently acknowledges 31 species of Lycaste , 3 natural hybrids, 2 subspecies (and 1 nominate subspecies ), and 1 variety .
The Orchid World, an illustrated journal devoted to orchidology by Gurney Wilson. Orchidology is the scientific study of orchids . It is an organismal-level branch of botany .
Ophrys apifera, known in Europe as the bee orchid, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Ophrys, in the family of Orchidaceae. It serves as an example of sexually deceptive pollination and floral mimicry, a highly selective and highly evolved plant–pollinator relationship.