A Golden Guide - Orchids - Revised Edition
Floyd S. Shuttleworth, Herbert S. Zim & Gordon W. Dillon Revised by Alec M. Pridgeon

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                                   CONTENTS
WHAT IS AN ORCHID? .......................................................  4
   Classification  ..................................................................  6
   Pollination  .......................................................................  8
   Hybridization  .................................................................. 10
WHERE ORCHIDS GROW  ................................................ 14
HABITATS  .......................................................................... 16
CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS  ....................................... 18
ORCHID DESCRIPTION  .................................................... 19
   Cypripedium and allied genera  .................................... 19
   Habinaria and its relatives  ............................................ 25
  Some Australian orchid genera ..................................... 27
  Vanilla, Sobralia, Bletilla, and related genera ............... 30
  The Jewel orchids - Goodyera and its relatives ........... 34
  The Pleurothallis alliance  .............................................. 38
  Liparis, Coelogyne, Thunia, and relatives  ................... 40
  Epidendrum, Cattleya, and related genera  .................. 45
  Eria and Dendrobium  ..................................................... 72
  Polystachya, Bulbophyllum, Cyrtopodium, and other     genera ............................................................................... 83
  Cymbidium and its relatives .......................................... 91
  Catasetum, Gongora, and others  ................................. 95
  Lycaste, Huntleya, Maxillaria, and other genera  ........ 102
  The Oncidium alliance, including Miltonia and     Odontoglossum  ............................................................. 126
  Phalaenopsis, Vanda, and related genera  .................. 139
AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY  ...................................... 156
INDEX  ............................................................................... 157

PREFACE

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This book surveys the great orchid Family as it illustrates and descriabes those selected wild forms that best show the family characteristics and diversities. It also attempts to show those species most commonly cultivated and often used in breeding.