Orchid Research Newsletter No

Anatomy and morphology

Cardoso-Gustavson, P., Campbell, L. M., Mazzoni-Viveiros, S. C., and de Barros, F. 2014. Floral colleters in Pleurothallidinae (Epidendroideae: Orchidaceae). American Journal of Botany 101: 587-597.
Chen, J., Wang, H., Liu, S. S., Li, Y. Y., and Guo, S. X. 2014. Ultrastructure of symbiotic germination of the orchid Dendrobium officinale with its mycobiont, Sebacina sp. Australian Journal of Botany 62: 229-234.
Davies, K. L. and Stpiczynska, M. 2014. Labellar anatomy and secretion in Bulbophyllum Thouars (Orchidaceae: Bulbophyllinae) sect. Racemosae Benth. & Hook. f. Annals of Botany 114: 889-911.
Espolador Leitao, C. A., Heidi Dolder, M. A., and Cortelazzo, A. L. 2014. Anatomy and histochemistry of the nectaries of Rodriguezia venusta (Lindl.) Rchb. f. (Orchidaceae). Flora 209: 233-243.
Hsu, S-T., Wongprichachan, P., Chou, Y-M., Liu, T-Y., Miyajima, I., and Huang, K-L. 2014. Analyses of sporads types at different bud development stages of Phalaenopsis orchids. Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture Kyushu University 59: 39-44.
Mildenhall, D. C., Kennedy, E. M., Lee, D. E., Kaulfuss, U., Bannister, J. M., Fox, B., and Conran, J. G. 2014. Palynology of the early Miocene Foulden Maar, Otago, New Zealand: diversity following destruction. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 204: 27-42.
Yang, C-K. and Lee, Y-I. 2014. The seed development of a mycoheterotrophic orchid, Cyrtosia javanica Blume. Botanical Studies 55(44): 30 May 2014.

Books

Gregory, M. and Cutler, D F. (eds). 2014. Anatomy of the Monocotyledons. X. Orchidaceae. By W. L. Stern. Oxford University Press.

Conservation biology

Ghorbani, A., Gravendeel, B., Naghibi, F., and de Boer, H. 2014. Wild orchid tuber collection in Iran: a wake-up call for conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 23: 2749-2760.

Knapp, W. M. and Wiegand, R.2014. Orchid (Orchidaceae) decline in the Catoctin Mountains, Frederick County, Maryland as documented by a long-term dataset. Biodiversity and Conservation 23: 1965-1976.
Marks, T. R., Seaton, P. T., and Pritchard, H. W. 2014. Desiccation tolerance, longevity and seed-siring ability of entomophilous pollen from UK native orchid species. Annals of Botany 114: 561-569.
Minasiewicz, J. and Znaniecka, J. M. 2014. Characterization of 15 novel microsatellite loci for Cypripedium calceolus (Orchidaceae) using MiSeq sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 6: 527-529.
Phillips, R. D., Peakall, R., Hutchinson, M. F., Linde, C. C., Xu, T., Dixon, K. W., and Hopper, S. D. 2014. Specialized ecological interactions and plant species rarity: the role of pollinators and mycorrhizal fungi across multiple spatial scales. Biological Conservation 169: 285-295.
Qian, X., Li, Q-J., Liu, F., Gong, M-J., Wang, C-X., and Tian, M. 2014. Conservation genetics of an endangered lady's slipper orchid: Cypripedium japonicum in China. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 15: 11578-11596.
Sommerville, K. D. Offord, C. A. 2014. Conserving a life cycle -- simultaneous cryopreservation of orchid seeds and mycorrhizal fungi. Acta Horticulturae 1039: 219-226.
Swarts, N. D., Clements, M. A., Bower, C. C., and Miller, J. T. 2014. Defining conservation units in a complex of morphologically similar, sexually deceptive, highly endangered orchids. Biological Conservation 174: 55-64.
Teixeira da Silva, J. A., Zeng, S., Galdiano, R. F., Jr., Dobranszki, J., Cardoso, J. C., and Vendrame, W. A. 2014. In vitro conservation of Dendrobium germplasm. Plant Cell Reports 33: 1413-1423.
Wan, J-Z., Wang, C-J., Han, S-J., and Yu, J-H. 2014. Planning the priority protected areas of endangered orchid species in northeastern China. Biodiversity and Conservation 23: 1395-1409.
Zhang, Y., Zhao, S-W., Liu, D-Y., Zhang, Q-X., and Cheng, J. 2014. Flowering phenology and reproductive characteristics of Cypripedium macranthos (Orchidaceae) in China and their implication in conservation. Pakistan Journal of Botany 46: 1303-1308.

Cytogenetics

da Silva, J. A.T., Giang, D. T. T., Dobranszki, J., Zeng, S-J., and Tanaka, M. 2014. Ploidy analysis of Cymbidium, Phalaenopsis, Dendrobium and Paphiopedilum (Orchidaceae), and Spathiphyllum and Syngonium (Araceae). Biologia 69: 750-755.

Ecology

Ackerman, J. D., Falcon, W., Molinari, J., Vega, C., Espino, I., and Cuevas, A. A. 2014. Biotic resistance and invasional meltdown: consequences of acquired interspecific interactions for an invasive orchid, Spathoglottis plicata, in Puerto Rico. Biological Invasions 16: 2435-2447.

Bellino, A., Alfani, A., Selosse, M-A., Guerrieri, R., Borghetti, M., and Baldantoni, D. 2014. Nutritional regulation in mixotrophic plants: new insights from Limodorum abortivum. Oecologia 175: 875-885.
Gonneau, C., Jersakova, J., de Tredern, E., Till-Bottraud, I., Saarinen, K., Sauve, M., Roy, M., Hajek, T., and Selosse, M-A. 2014. Photosynthesis in perennial mixotrophic Epipactis spp. (Orchidaceae) contributes more to shoot and fruit biomass than to hypogeous survival. Journal of Ecology 102: 1183-1194.
Gonzalez Diaz, S., Sotolongo Sospedra, R., Leon Sanchez, M. A., and Gongora Rojas, F. 2014. Incidence of the modification semicaducifolio forest on orchids in Sierra of the Rosario Candelaria, Cuba. Revista - Facultad Nacional de Agronomia Medellin 67: 7345-7353.
Jagde,V., Kusum, and Sembi, J. K. 2014. Study on distribution and habitat ecology of a rare lady slipper orchid (Cypripedium cordigerum D. Don) in Himachal Pradesh. Vegetos 27: 382-388.
Jimenez Bautista, L., Damon, A., Ochoa-Gaona, S., and Clark Tapia, R. 2014. Impact of silvicultural methods on vascular epiphytes (ferns, bromeliads and orchids) in a temperate forest in Oaxaca, Mexico. Forest Ecology and Management 329: 10-20.
Kartzinel, T. R., Shefferson, R. P., and Trapnell, D. W. 2013. Relative importance of pollen and seed dispersal across a Neotropical mountain landscape for an epiphytic orchid. Molecular Ecology 22: 6048-6059.
Kindlmann, P., Melendez-Ackerman, E. J., and Tremblay, R. L. 2014. Disobedient epiphytes: colonization and extinction rates in a metapopulation of Lepanthes rupestris (Orchidaceae) contradict theoretical predictions based on patch connectivity. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 175: 598-606.
Kosaka, N., Kawahara, T., and Takahashi, H. 2014. Vegetation factors influencing the establishment and growth of the endangered Japanese orchid, Cypripedium macranthos var. rebunense. Ecological Research 29: 1003-1023.
Marchin, R. M., Dunn, R. R., and Hoffmann, W. A. 2014. Are winter-active species vulnerable to climate warming? A case study with the wintergreen terrestrial orchid, Tipularia discolor. Oecologia 176: 1161-1172.
Oostermeijer, J. G. B. and Hartman, Y. 2014. Inferring population and metapopulation dynamics of Liparis loeselii from single-census and inventory data. Acta Oecologica-International Journal of Ecology 60: 30-39.
Stockel, M., Tesitelova, T., Jersakova, J., Bidartondo, M. I., and Gebauer, G. 2014. Carbon and nitrogen gain during the growth of orchid seedlings in nature. New Phytologist 202: 606-615.
Tremblay, R. L. and McCarthy, M. A. 2014. Bayesian estimates of transition probabilities in seven small lithophytic orchid populations: maximizing data availability from many small samples. PLOS ONE 9(7):e102859.
Vanden Broeck, A., Van Landuyt, W., Cox, K., De Bruyn, L., Gyselings, R., Oostermeijer, G., Valentin, B., Bozic, G., Dolinar, B., Illyes, Z., and Mergeay, J. 2014. High levels of effective long-distance dispersal may blur ecotypic divergence in a rare terrestrial orchid. BMC Ecology 14: 20.
Wu, G-Y., Hui, J-A., Wang, Z-H., Li, J., and Ye, Q-S. 2014. Photosynthetic characteristics of four wild Dendrobium species in China. Hortscience 49: 1023-1027.
Zhu, L-G., Li, X-N., Wang, Y. Chen, H., and Zhao, P-D. 2014. Resources distribution features of Orchidaceae plants in Shibing karst region. Guizhou Agricultural Sciences 42: 25-28.
Zotz, G., Mendieta-Leiva, G., and Wagner, K. 2014. Vascular epiphytes at the treeline - composition of species assemblages and population biology. Flora 209: 385-390.