The Peruvian Orchid Club is trying to define the current list of Peruvian Orchid species. At the time, and working with IPNI, MoBot´s and Kew´s database plus our own experience here in Peru our current list (eliminating all synonyms), shows around 3200 species in 280 genera.
Peru is home of the famous Phragmipedium kovachii, Phragmipedium bessae and other important Orchid species. Every year we find new Orchid species on a race to save them before their habitats are destroyed. As you know illegal trading is allowing for a lot of these plants to be illegally extracted out of their habitat and even out of our country!
On an effort to generate awareness of Peruvian Orchids we published a website on Peruvian Orchids. Pictures are very important in this task and we are publishing Peruvian Orchid Pictures on a regular basis on our website ( http://www.peruorchids.com/).
We would like to acknowledge the special help we are receiving from Eric Hunt ( http://www.orchidphotos.org/) who has been helping us with hundreds of pictures we still have yet to publish, Hans Vissers from Holland who has also provided several hundred pictures and Mr. Carlos Hajek for his amazing collection of slides.
Sorry but for lack of time we can't translate the accompanying data (habitat, growth habit, etc.) for those orchids but pictures talk for themselves right? We promise we will update the English version of our website this year.
We have also created a new section aimed for people around the globe to help us ID several pictures we have gathered. You can browse them at: http://www.peruorchids.com/id/english/index.htm
For those willing to help somehow please send comments and/or pictures to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Your pictures of Peruvian Orchid species will be published with the proper copyright notice and not shared with anyone.
Ours is a non profit association of around 30 Orchid fans trying to do our best to study and protect Peruvian Orchid species. Any help will be appreciated!
Best regards
Pablo Bermudez
Webmaster
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