Genera Orchidacearum: Volume 2
Subtitle: Orchidoideae (Part 1) (Genera Orchidacearum)
Contributors: Alec M. Pridgeon (Editor); Phillip J. Cribb (Editor); Mark W. Chase (Editor); Finn N. Rasmussen (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: March 19, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780198507109
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.