The manual of cultivated orchid species
By: Helmut Bechtel, Phillip Cribb, Edmund Launert.
Contributors: Cribb, Phillip.; Launert, Edmund.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 585
Subjects: Orchids; Orchids -- Nomenclature; Orchid culture; Orchids -- Pictorial works
Description: "The third edition of this definitive handbook of orchid cultivation includes major revisions in both text and illustrations. It adds 24 pages of color photographs--bringing the total number of species illustrated to 864--and 62 line drawings. The sections on taxonomy have been substantially expanded to include updated treatments of orchid biology, diversity, and classification, and descriptions of 140 genera and more than twice that number of species have been added."--Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 564-567) and indexes.
Translation of: Orchideenatlas.