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Orchids of Southeast Asia on CD-ROM
NEW! The CD-ROM 'Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea Vol. II: Dendrobium and allied genera', ISBN 90-75000-43-X (Macintosh & Windows) was published on July 24, 2002. This contains descriptions in English of all 567 species of New Guinea Dendrobiinae and gives the synonymy as now understood. It covers the genera Cadetia (47 species), Dendrobium (421), Diplocaulobium (71) and Flickingeria (8). The Orchid Glossary, which is hyperlinked in the texts, is upgraded and extended to 568 entries and provided with 164 new illustrations. The dichotomous key with a total of 144 couplets identifies 4 genera, 25 sections and about 100 species in selected sections.
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The interactive multimedia key to the 4 genera and 25 sections is based on 28 characters and 71 character states. Both keys are fully illustrated with a total of 166 new illustrations. The types are listed as well as the herbaria where they are located; 571 photographs of types are included, from the Bogor and Leiden Herbaria. The distribution of the species is given, and 273 newly prepared distribution maps with indication of altitudinal zones are added. The whole is further illustrated by 558 colour photographs, 420 line drawings from earlier publications (of which 270 by Schlechter), and 625 digitised flower analyses in pencil from the archives of J.J. Smith. In book form this publication would cover more than 1100 pages of which about 400 pages of text and (with 4 illustrations per page) some 700 pages illustrations.
The CD-ROM's can be purchased from the Publications Department of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands (NHN). The price is fixed at EURO 59,00 per CD-ROM, plus mailing costs. Conditions for sale: Banking costs, now Euro 9.00, are charged unless paid by VISA- or Mastercard. Discount for booksellers and subscription agencies is 20%. For orders in the European Union 19% VAT will be charged.
The address of the Institute is:
Nationaal Herbarium Nederland (NHN)
Einsteinweg 2
P.O. Box 9514
2300 RA Leiden
The Netherlands
Publications Department Administration:
Tel.: +31 71 5273570
Fax: +31 71 5273522
Email: zoelen@nhn.leidenuniv.nl
The CD-ROM 'Orchids of New Guinea Vol. I: Illustrated Checklist and Genera' ISBN 90-75000-20-0 (Macintosh & Windows) consists of descriptions of all 132 New Guinea orchid genera, an orchid terms glossary with over 500 entries (hyperlinked in the texts), an illustrated dichotomous key and an interactive multimedia key to the genera. The main body of the work is a checklist of all c. 3000 orchid taxa occurring in New Guinea, complete with the synonymy as now understood, indicating the types and where they are located, the distribution of the taxa, and including concise cultivation notes for each species. It is illustrated by c. 1000 colour photographs and over 1000 digitised flower analyses in pencil from the archives of J.J. Smith. The CD-ROM was published 28 February 2001. In book form it would cover more than 850 pages of text and (with 4 illustrations per page) 500 pages illustrations. It is part of a planned series of 5 to 6 CD-ROM's on New Guinea orchids which in their turn are part of a much larger project: Orchids of Southeast Asia on CD-ROM, covering 8000 orchid species.
Continuation of CD-ROM project Orchids of Malesia on CD-ROM
Funding has been acquired from the Cheng Kim Loke Foundation and the Pacific Biological Foundation to continue the project till end 2005, to publish all 3000 New Guinea orchid species on CD-ROM in the same format. In the same period, Checklists on CD-ROM will be published for the orchids of the Philippines and Vietnam.
CD-ROM's dealing with orchids of Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea will be official Flora Malesiana publications. The project is carried out in association with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, England, and the National Capital Botanic Gardens Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
The volunteer Mr. P. Hartog continues with scanning the the original pencil drawings of New Guinea orchids by J.J. Smith, of which he has completed a total of c. 3700; some 1000 non-New Guinea drawings are pending. About 1650 images have been used in the two published CD-ROM's.
Some 570 illustrations of New Guinea orchids were scanned from various publications, including the illustrations from Schlechter's New Guinea publications. Some 420 of these have been used in the two published CD-ROM's.
The number of top photographers contributing their Southeast Asian orchid slide collections for free use in this project has grown to over 35. About 1500 additional colour slides have been digitised and entered in a database.
The project is co-ordinated by E.F. de Vogel and implemented by A. Schuiteman, assisted by De Vogel. Information about the CD-ROM project and contact persons for potential donors:
Ed de Vogel, email: devogel@nhn.leidenuniv.nl tel. +31 71 5273553
André Schuiteman, email: schuiteman@nhn.leidenuniv.nl tel. +31 71 5273553
Species reference system for Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific
Updating the database ASORCH (now more than 26.600 records), the framework of the CD-ROM projects, is continuing. Almost 700 records were added and data on some 1200 variety names were collected in Harvard and need to be typed in. For several hundred New Guinea orchid types in Herbarium Bogoriense and the Herbarium of Royal Botanic Gardens Kew the data were included. Type reference inclusion in ASORCH for the non-Malesian species is continuing.
Orchid Network
Efforts continued to organise and finance a network of co-operating scientists in Southeast Asia and the Western part of the world with the aim to produce an Encyclopaedia on CD-ROM of all 8000 Southeast Asian orchid species. A Memorandum of Understanding between National Capital Botanical Gardens Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and NHN has been signed on co-operation in field work, training and education; one with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is pending.
Publications in progress:
Orchids of New Guinea Vol.III: New Guinea Genera Acanthephippium to Hymenorchis excluding Bulbophyllum and Dendrobiinae (covering 56 genera, c. 650 species, 1870 names, scheduled halfway 2003)
Orchids of the Philippines Vol. I: Illustrated Checklist and Genera (covering 137 genera, 1057 taxa, 2254 names, scheduled end 2002)
Orchids of Vietnam Vol. I: Illustrated Checklist and Genera (covering 143 genera, 733 taxa, 1511 names, scheduled beginning 2003)
Other recent publications, also available from the NHN Publications Department:
Schuiteman & de Vogel. 2000. Orchid Genera of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Four bilingual versions, 72-111 pp. in one of the local languages and 83 pp. English text, 136 colour photographs. Price in EURO: 23 plus all costs as mentioned above.
ISBN 90-71236-41-2 (Vietnamese-English version)
ISBN 90-71236-42-0 (Lao-English version)
ISBN 90-71236-43-9 (Khmer-English version)
ISBN 90-71236-44-7 (Thai-English version)
The version which will be supplied is to the discretion of the NHN, unless a certain language is specifically ordered. For orders from the countries involved the price is EURO 11. 50 plus costs.
De Vogel, Schuiteman, Feleus & Vogel. 1999. Hortus Botanicus Leiden. Catalogue Part I 1998: Orchidaceae. 131 pp. text, 32 pp. coloured plates. Price in EURO: 23.00 plus all costs as mentioned above.
ISBN 90-76606-01-3
ISSN 1389-4749
! Special Offer:
Orchid Monographs The complete set HALF PRICE: Volumes 1- 8: EUR. 127.-
Orchid Monographs separate volumes:
Vol. 1 (1986). Bracisepalum, Chelonistele, Entomophobia, Geesinkorchis, Nabaluia EUR 25.00
Vol. 2 (1987). African Bulbophylllinae - EUR 45.00
Vol. 3 (1988). Pholidota - EUR 27.50
Vol. 4 (1990). Indian Oberonia - EUR 18.00
Vol. 5 (1991). African Nervilia - EUR 20.50
Vol. 6 (1992). Coelogyne sect. Tomentosae, Ania, Hancockia, Mischobulbum, Tainia - EUR 29.50
Vol. 7 (1993). Bulbophyllum sect. Adelopetalum, Lepantanthe, Macrouris, Pelma,
Peltopus, Uncifera - EUR 45.00
Vol. 8 (1998). Agrostophyllum sect. Appendiculopsis, Mediocalcar, Bromheadia,
Chrysoglossum, Collabium, Diglyphosa, Pilophyllum - EUR 45.00
More information can be found on the website of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands
The digitised Type collection of the National Herbarium can be consulted as well.
Click on Type collection, then on the picture of the herbarium sheet. Enter the search criteria in the appropriate boxes. When you are on the specimen detail screen you can click on the thumbnail picture to enlarge the picture of the type sheet.
Other information on the CD-ROM is to be found on the website of Wolfgang Bandisch in PNG: http://www.orchidspng.com/
Click on the left upper button under New Guinea Orchid Project. Browse also through his many pages full of other information on New Guinea orchids and his gallery of photographs.
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