World Orchid Iconography

458 orchid slides by Jany Renz from Iran, Italy, Switzerland and Germany were scanned during the last few weeks and are now newly available in the World Orchid Iconography (search for "Collector/Photo by: J. Renz", "Collection: Slides").
https://orchid.unibas.ch/index.php/en/database-search/advanced-search

Thus, the digitization of the Renz slide collection has been completed.

We thank again our volunteer Marianne Schweizer who has looked through Jany Renz' slides, catalogued them and completed her excellent work during the last month!

A new orchid key for the genus Vanda has been created and is now online! Furthermore, the existing key for the genus Cypripedium has been adapted to the new security standarts of most browsers and changed to the same format as the Vanda key.

You can find both keys as well as the key for European orchids at https://orchid.unibas.ch/index.php/en/orchidinfos/orchid-keys.

Orchid Keys Since January 2009, the European orchid species in the World Orchid Iconography may be accessed through an interactive key. The visitors of our website may determine their own images of orchids easily: all European orchid species are filtered using morphological criteria. For example, all European o…

We are very happy to announce the bestowal of the Swiss Orchid Research Award 2014 (SORA) to Prof. Cássio van den Berg for his work on the phylogeny of the genus Cattleya.

The SORA is a yearly award for scientific orchid research in the fields of evolutionary and reproductive biology, taxonomy, anatomy, physiology and ecology of orchids.

The Award will be hold:
Date: 9th of December, 2014, from 17.00 until 19.00,
Place: The Visitor's Green House in the Botanical Garden of the University of Basel (Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel)

We hope to see you there! You can find the official invite on our homepage: http://bit.ly/1raSexq
And keep an eye out for new additions to the WOI, we have some exciting things to announce!