Orchids

Among the many wildflowers in Western Australia, there are around one thousand species of orchids.One of the first botanists to study Western Australia was Archibald Menzies, aboard HMS Discovery, who explored King George Sound in 1791. Many of the samples (including orchids) were lost in the return to England, but those that did survive were documented in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van Diemen, published by Robert Brown in 1810.The first three orchids from Western Australia to be named were Calaenia menziesii (named after Menzies), Caladenia flava, and Diuris longifolia.In 1802 Robert Brown himself collected 500 specimens of flora from Western Australia, including:In West Australian Orchids (1930), Emily Pelloe described and illustrated an extensive survey. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_orchids_of_Western_Australia Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book.