Charles:
One of the nice little secrets of the World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database run by Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew is is Advances Search feature : http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/monocotChecklist/advanced.do When you enter it ..Fill in in Orchidaceae in Family and then you can pick Continent , Regions or Botanical Nations If you pick regions you can select all the regions of the US and if you pick Botanical Nations you can select each one of the states. The search will generate a list of all the records ( accepted and synonyms ) of all the Orchidaceae listed for the Continent, Region or "Nation" selected. The ones in BOLD are the names accepted by Kew and the ones in plain type are the synonyms. A click in ache name of the species..will yield botanical name with publication, synonyms both homotypic or heterotypic and the distribution data using the standard names and numbers ( there is a link to find the menaings of the numbers, etc) and the type of life form. [Ah if you copy and paste the lists produced into a Word document it will keep the active links.] It is very nice to use. Jose _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
