Orchids of the Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana), Volume 1

The work is based on the herbarium material and field expeditions to French Guiana carried by Szlachetko in 1997 and 1999.
The keys for the determination of the taxa are dichotomous. The characteristic of every species contains the following: Latin name, abbreviation of the authors’ names, citation, synonymy, taxonomic description, ecology, distribution and the list of representative specimens. Synonyms are written accordingly to the taxonomical norms.
Subfamilies of the Orchidaceae represented: Cypripediaceae, Orchidoideae, Tropidioideae, Spiranthoideae, Vanilloideae, Epidendroideae