Book ID: 75619
Hortus Botanicus Catalogue Series
Part 1: Ed de Vogel, André Schuiteman Nathalie Feleus, Art Vogel:Orchidaceae. 1998. 128 col. photographs. 164 p. Paper bd.
Lists about 6200 accessions covering over 1500 species in cultivationin the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of Leiden University since1954. This catalogue is much more than a mere list of names: informationis also provided on provenance and flowering months 'in captivity'. TheLeiden orchid collections for the basis of taxonomic research on theOrchidaceae for Flora Malesiana and other parts of SE Asia. Most ofthe species illustrated here have never been figured before.