The plants belonging to the family Orchidaceae represent a pinnacle of evolutionary success in the plant kingdom. Represented by approximately twenty-five thousand species, they are possibly the largest family of flowering plants on Earth. Although...

Orchidaceae, also called the Orchid family, is the largest family of the flowering plants (Angiospermae). [1] [2] Its name is derived from the genus Orchis. The Royal Botanical Gardens of Kew list 880 genera and nearly 22,000 accepted species, but the...

Describes orchid mycorrhiza and examines its impact on plant fitness from germination through seedling stage. Provides an overview of the latest findings regarding OM as a factor that affects the recruitment (and subsequent infection) of orchid seeds as well as their ecological and/or substrate distributions.