【Introduction】

   This volume entirely comprises the orchid family, Orchidaceae, with 1.388 species in China, of which 491 are endemic, i.e., found nowhere else on Earth . The orchids of China include wild relatives of the source of the economically important vanilla pod, as well as the well-known cultivated genera Cymbidium and the slipper orchids, Cypripedium and Paphiopedilum . China has hundreds of Other horticulturally important orchid species in genera such as Bletilla, Bulbophyllum , Calanthe, Coelogyne, Dendrobium, Phalaenopsis, Pleinoe, and Vanda. This volume is the only fully comprehensive and up-to-date, English-language account of the wild orchids of China .

【Main Contents】

Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgments
Orchidaceae
List of Nomenclatural Novelties Published in this Volume of the Flora of China
Index to Chinese Names
Index to Pinyin Names
Index to Scientific Names
Index to Families in the Flora of China and the Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae
Published Volumes of the Flora of China and the Flora of China Illustrations