Wiki Additions--Arachnorchis
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:22:02 PST)

Hi,

I decided to put pictures of the Caladenia orchids from Australia on the
genus pages of the new genera proposed by Jones and Clement for this genus
with links on the Caladenia page to save having to make a number of
Caladenia pages later if I put them both places. So the first additional
genus I've made a page for is Arachnorchis (spider orchids). I've added
some Western Australia species identified for us at an orchid show in
Albany and some species that we saw in Victoria in the wild that Malcolm
has confirmed the identification for me. I've got a lot more pictures to
add from Western Australia, but there are so many species and my books
don't include them all so identification is very challenging so they may
all end up sp. when I finally get around to them. It is quite thrilling
when you discover these orchids in the wild and we all took multiple
pictures whenever that happened. Sometimes we found more than one, but
often you would only see one or perhaps a couple of plants and so we were
always grateful to the person who discovered one. I think I got a bit
carried away with adding SOME of these pictures to the wiki, but they
really do look different from different angles and they are quite intricate
in design.

http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

There are a lot more Caladenia pictures coming as I have time.

Mary Sue