Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama by Robert L. Dressler

This comprehensive field guide, published in 1993, emphasizes features readily seen with the naked eye or handlens. It is clearly written with a minimum of technical terms and includes:

• Introductory chapters on: Geography, climate, vegetation, and people; orchid structure and ecology.
• Illustrated keys to all orchid genera and keys to most orchid species in this region.
• Numerous illustrations: 240 color photographs and 229 line drawings.
• Appendices: Preparing orchid material for study; list of authors of orchid names.
• Brief glossary
• 374 p.