Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

 

The Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society publishes original papers of relevance to, and reviews of, the taxonomy of all plant groups and fungi, including anatomy, biosystematics, cytology, ecology, ethnobotany, electron microscopy, morphogenesis, palaeobotany, palynology and phytochemistry.

 

 

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Dr Mike Fay

Jodrell Laboratory

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Richmond

Surrey

TW9 3DS

UK

 

 

In the Current Issue

 

June 2010 Volume 163 Issue 2 pages 107-182  

 

Special Issue: Celebrating orchids in the International Year of Biodiversity

  

  • Celebrating orchids in the International Year of Biodiversity
    Michael F. Fay
  • Orchidaceae werckleanae: typification of Costa Rican orchid species described from collections by K. Wercklé
    Franco Pupulin
  • Chalcone synthase variation and phylogenetic relationships in Dactylorhiza (Orchidaceae)
    Luis A. Inda, Manuel Pimentel, Mark W. Chase
  • Constraints on establishment in an endangered terrestrial orchid: a comparative study of in vitro and in situ seed germinability and seedling development in Nervilia nipponica
    Stephan W. Gale, Jun Yamazaki, Michael J. Hutchings, Tomohisa Yukawa, Kazumitsu Miyoshi

  • Plastid microsatellites for the study of genetic variability in the widespread Cephalanthera longifolia, C. damasonium and C. rubra (Neottieae, Orchidaceae), and cross-amplification in other Cephalanthera species
    Claire Micheneau, Karl J. Duffy, Rhian J. Smith, Laura J. Stevens, Jane C. Stout, Laure Civeyrel, Robyn S. Cowan, Michael F. Fay 

  • The incidence of crassulacean acid metabolism in Orchidaceae derived from carbon isotope ratios: a checklist of the flora of Panama and Costa Rica
    Katia Silvera, Louis S. Santiago, John C. Cushman, Klaus Winter 

  • Genome size in Polystachya (Orchidaceae) and its relationships to epidermal characters
    Barbara Rupp, Rosabelle Samuel, Anton Russell, Eva M. Temsch, Mark W. Chase, Ilia J. Leitch 

  • Variation in chromosome number and the basic number of subfamily Epidendroideae (Orchidaceae)
    Leonardo P. Felix, Marcelo Guerra 

Book Reviews 

  • Orchids of Britain and Ireland: a field and site guide
    Richard M Bateman
  • Genera Orchidacearum, vol. 5: Epidendroideae, part 2
    M. F. Fay
  • Ireland's Wild Orchids – A Field Guide
    M. F. Fay

    

  

 

  

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Featured Paper

Orchidaceae werckleanae: typification of Costa Rican orchid species described from collections by K. Wercklé

  

Franco Pupulin

 

  

Abstract

 

 

 

A catalogue of 84 orchid species described by R. Schlechter from plants collected in Costa Rica by Karl Wercklé is presented. Lectotypification is provided for 60 of the 84 species. Previously lectotypified species, based on syntypes, including collections by Wercklé, and neotypified taxa, are recorded, and bibliographical references to the designations of lectotypes and neotypes are provided. Neotypes are selected for eight species, for which no isotypes, paratypes or other material associated with the protologue are known to exist. Illustrations of most of the lectotypes are provided. Epidendrum amparoanum, Pachystele densa and Trigonidium amparoanum  are not typified because of lack of appropriate material and because of taxonomic uncertainties.

 

© 2010 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010, 163, 111-154.