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<< BACK TO PUBLICATIONS LIST NEW A Field Guide to Australian Orchids Epiphytes   David L. Jones 2024 A long-awaited accurate and user-friendly field guide to Australian orchids, written and illustrated by the world’s leading expert on the subject. This comprehensive and portable guide includes concise written accounts and stunning colour photographs and line drawings […]

<< BACK TO PUBLICATIONS LIST NEW Complete Guide to Native Orchids of AustraliaRevised 3rd Edition David L. Jones 2024 This is the spectacular and comprehensive Revised Third Edition of a book that is the magnum opus of Australian orchid expert David L. Jones. It includes many updates with, most importantly, 30 new species accounts (with

<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 358/2024   Title: A Minute to Midnight. 8th International Orchid Conservation Congress (IOCC8) Perth 2024 Applicant: Dr. Jacopo Calevo Institution: Curtin University, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102   The International Orchid Conservation Congress (IOCC) was inaugurated in 2000, with the first event organized in Perth, Australia.

<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 355/2023   Title: Preventing extinction of five endangered orchid species Applicant: Dr Noushka Reiter Institution: Royal Botanic Gardens, Victoria   Ex situ conservation programs are needed for many threatened orchid species, and creating ex situ insurance collections is a key step in this conservation recovery journey. For five endangered

In memory of Adrian ‘Dave’ Groffen 22-03-1950 ~ 21-06-2023 Dave was born in The Hague in Holland. His parents, along with Dave and his three sisters migrated to Australia in 1957 and settled in Adelaide, South Australia. His public school education in South Australia included learning Latin which was of great value to Dave in

    Award of Honour for 2023 granted to: Ted and Barbara Gregory THE GRANTING OF THIS AWARD RECOGNISES THAT:- As a child, Ted had an interest in orchids growing on trees and rocks, and before he was 10 years old, had established quite a collection of the native orchids of his area, the Gloucester

In memory of TED AND BARBARA GREGORY 1930 ~ 2021/22 Ted and Barbara were married in 1957. They had a vast collection of Australian Native Orchids when they lived at Glenthorne by the Manning River, NSW. A major flood in1978 decimated their orchid collection which included many natural Dendrobium hybrids collected for 1940’s/1950’s onwards. 1979

<< BACK TO PUBLICATIONS LIST NEW Orchids of Central Western NSW Colin C Bower and Richard W Medd 2023 This book is the first comprehensive guide to the native orchids of Central Western NSW. The 140 species and hybrids are described and illustrated with high quality photographs for ease of identification, The natural history of

<< BACK TO PUBLICATIONS LIST NEW Orchids in Australia: Growing Orchids Common Cultural Problems and their solutions Compiled from orchid growers’ contributions to the Awareness Campaign of The Australian Orchid Foundation. Edited by Brian Milligan and Alan Hope  2005. Reprinted 2023. Over 40 articles, grouped in General Orchid Culture, Specific orchid culture and Control of Insects,

<< BACK TO PROJECT LIST Project: 357/2023   Title:  Plastid phylogenomics reveals evolutionary relationships in the mycoheterotrophic orchid genus Dipodium and provides insights into plastid gene degenerationApplicant:  Stephanie GoedderzInstitution:  Australian Tropical Herbarium, James Cook University, Cairns Qld 4878   Presentation at the Biosystematics Conference in Canberra in November 2023Communicating research on the mycoheterotrophic orchid genus