Genera Orchidacearum: Volume 4
Subtitle: Epidendroideae (Part 1) (Genera Orchidacearum)
Contributors: Alec M. Pridgeon (Editor); Phillip Cribb (Editor); Mark W. Chase (Editor); Finn N. Rasmussen (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 11, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 696
ISBN-13: 9780198507123
First sentence: The orchid family, Orchidaceae, has inspired a great deal of speculation concerning the timing and place of their evolution, but since they have no fossil history until the Miocene (Schmid and Schmid 1977; general review in Herendeen and Crane 1995), it has been widely assumed that they are a relatively recently evolved family.