The Pollination Biology of North American Orchids: Volume 1: North of Florida and Mexico

By Charles L. Argue and Argue

Book Overview

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section I. Subfamily Cypripedioideae (the slipper orchids)

Chapter 2. Cypripedium L. (the lady's-slippers), Introduction

Chapter 3. Section Acaulia

Cypripedium acaule Aiton (pink or stemless lady's-slipper)

Chapter 4. Section Obtusipetala

Cypripedium reginae Walter (showy lady's-slipper)

Cypripedium passerinum Richardson (sparrow's egg lady's-slipper)

Chapter 5. Section Cypripedium

Cypripedium parviflorum Salisbury (yellow lady's-slipper)

Cypripedium candidum Muhlenberg ex Willdenow (small white lady's-slipper)

Cypripedium montanum Douglas ex Lindley (mountain lady's-slipper)

Cypripedium kentuckiense C. F. Reed (ivory lady's-slipper, purloined slipper)

Chapter 6. Sections Arietinum and Enantiopetalum

Arietinum

Cypripedium arietinum R. Brown (ram's head lady's-slipper)

Enantiopetalum

Cypripedium fasciculatum Kellogg ex S. Watson (clustered lady's-slipper)

Chapter 7. Sections Irapeana and Bifolia

Irapeana

Cypripedium californicum A. Gray (California lady's-slipper)

Bifolia

Cypripedium guttatum Swartz (spotted lady's-slipper) and Cypripedium

yatabeanum Makino (green moccasin-flower)

Section II. Subfamily Orchidoideae (Part one)

Tribe Orchideae

Chapter 8. Platanthera L., Introduction

Chapter 9. Limnorchis Group

Platanthera dilatata (Pursh) Lindley ex L. C. Beck (tall white northern bog

orchid), P. aquilonis Sheviak (northern green orchid), and P. huronensis

(Nuttall) Lindley (tall green bog orchid)

Platanthera stricta Lindley (slender bog orchid)

Platanthera sparsiflora (S. Watson) Schlechter (sparsely flowered bog orchid)

Other species of the Limnorchis Group

Chapter 10. Platanthera Group

Platanthera obtusata (Banks ex Pursh) Lindley (blunt-leaved rein orchis)

Platanthera orbiculata (Pursh) Lindley (large round-leaved orchid) and

P. macrophylla (Goldie) P. M. Brown (goldie's round-leaved orchid)

Other species of the Platanthera Group

Chapter 11. Lacera Group

Platanthera peramoena A. Gray (purple fringeless orchid)

Platanthera psycodes (L.) Lindley (small-flowered purple-fringed orchid),

P. grandiflora (Bigelow) Lindley (large-flowered purple-fringed orchid), and

P. lacera (Michaux) G. Don (ragged fringed orchid)

Platanthera praeclara Sheviak and Bowles (western prairie fringed orchid)

and P. leucophaea (Nuttall) Lindley (eastern prairie fringed orchid)

Chapter 12. Blephariglottis Group

Platanthera ciliaris (L.) Lindley (yellow-fringed orchid) and P. blephariglottis

(Willdenow) Lindley (white-fringed orchid)

Other yellow-fringed orchids

Platanthera integrilabia (Correll) Luer (monkey-face orchid)

Platanthera clavellata (Michaux) Luer (little club-spur orchid)

Other possible members of the Blephariglottis Group

Chapter 13. Platantheras of unknown alignment

Platanthera flava (L.) Lindley (tubercled-orchid)

Platanthera chorisiana (Chamisso) Reichenbach (chamisso's orchid)

Chapter 14. Other Orchideae

Piperia Rydberg

Galearis Rafinesque

Pseudorchis Seguier

Amerorchis Hulten

Dactylorhiza Necker ex Nevski

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461405912
• ISBN13: 9781461405917
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"