“Orchideeën van de Benelux”
Turkey, Rhodes, Cyprus, Crimea – those are only some of the books about locations of orchids published by Karel Kreutz since 1998. Now he has presented a ...
Category: literature
Wolfgang Eccarius presents his genus monograph about Dactylorhiza
Following the benchmark books about the genera Anacamptis, Neotinea and Orchis (together with Horst Kretzschmar und Helga Dietrich, 2007) as well as a monograph...
Albiflora forms of Orchis in Austria
Two white flowered forms of Orchis are presented by Norbert Griebl in the latest edition of “Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen” (2...
Orchids are not a young plant family at all
In a paper published in the latest edition of the Journal Europaeischer Orchideen (vol 44, 2/2012, p. 421-426), Wolfgang Wucherpfennig reviews the recent public...
Snap-shot of the evolution: preliminary report of albiflora studies
Thanks to all the contributions to this project website albiflora.eu I’ve compiled a first paper about the white-coloured forms of orchids, published in B...
Dactylorhiza cyrnea – a new species described on Corsica
Two specialists of the orchid flora on Corsica, Wolfram Foelsche and Klaus Cord-Landwehr, have described a new Dactylorhiza species: Dactylorhiza cyrnea belongs...
Description of new species: No Latin required anymore
With beginning of the new year, the international botanical community has dismissed two requirements in describing new species or other taxa. It is now no longe...
Colour influences pollinator behaviour
Form and function of the flower organs are the main focus of the new fascinating book The Flower of the European Orchid by Jean Claessens and Jacques Kleynen. I...
Ophrys speculum f. flavescens
In the latest issue of “Berichte aus den Arbeitskreisen Heimische Orchideen” (27/2, 2010), Klaus Boie presents a rare hypochrome form of Ophrys spec...
Albiflora plants influence naïve pollinators
White-flowered orchid varieties are not just a “freak of nature” – they have quite obviously some biological function. A group of scientists i...