Book of Orchids - A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species From Around the World

Informationen zum Autor Mark Chase is a senior research scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. He is also adjunct professor at the School of Biological Sciences at the University of London and the School of Plant Biology at the University of Western Australia and a fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society. He coedits Genera Orchidacearum and has contributed to more than 350 publications on plant science. Maarten Christenhusz is a botanist who has worked for the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki, the Natural History Museum, London, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. He was initiator of the botanical journal Phytotaxa and is deputy editor of the Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society . He has written about 100 scientific and popular publications. Tom Mirenda is Director of Horticulture, Education, and Community Outreach at the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden. He frequently lectures on orchid ecology and conservation in the United States and abroad, and is a columnist for Orchids , the magazine of the American Orchid Society. Klappentext One of every seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid. Some are stunningly over the top; others almost inconspicuous. The Orchidaceae is the second most widely geographically distributed family, after the grasses, yet remains one of the least understood. This book will profile 600 species, representing the remarkable and unexpected diversity and complexity in the taxonomy and phylogeny of these beguiling plants, and the extraordinary means they have evolved in order to ensure the attraction of pollinators. Each species entry includes life-size photographs to capture botanical detail, as well as information on distribution, peak flowering period, and unique attributes--both natural and cultural. The result is a work which will attract and allure, much as the orchids themselves do.

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• Authors: Cressida Bell, Mark Chase, Mark Christenhusz Chase, Mark W Chase, Mark W. Chase, Mark/ Christenhusz Chase, Maarten Christenhusz, Maarten J M Christenhusz, Maarten J. M. Christenhusz, Christenhusz Maarten, Tom Mirenda
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780226224527
• ISBN: 978-0-226-22452-7
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 279 mm x 51 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Gardening, NATURE / Plants / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, NATURE / Reference, SCIENCE / Reference, GARDENING / Reference, Gardening: plants, Reference works, Trees, wildflowers & plants, Botany & plant sciences, Gardening: plants and cultivation guides, Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest, Botany and plant sciences