Ed has written a blog that describes his recent work on integration of the IPNI web service in the Biblio module of emonocot scratchpads. This new functionality means that full publication titles are auto-completed as a user begins to enter text into the relevant field.
For more info read Ed's blog here on the main project scratchpad: http://e-monocot.org/using-ipni-autocomplete-publication-names
The emonocot Content Team aims to gather protologues for all slipper orchids. While we are prioritizing currently accepted names, we also intend to gather and make available protologues for as many synonymised names as possible.
To date, virtually all content on the emonocot Cypripedioideae site has come from the monographs by Phillip J. Cribb (for Cypripedium, Paphiopedilum and Selenipedium) and the treatment of Phragmipedium by Lucile McCook (1989).
Take a look at the new 'About slipper orchids' page that highlights some major differences between the five slipper orchid genera.
Thanks to Steve Bachman and Justin Moat (Kew GIS Unit) for the 'quickmaps' script for ArcView that generated the slipper orchid distribution maps used in the figures (based on TDWG level 3 codes from the World Checklist of Monocots).
An illustration showing slipper orchid morphology is also included, drawn by Leonid Averyanov.
A 'Beta' version of a new web service is now available on the Cypripedioideae site, streaming images from the Swiss Orchid Foundation's online archive. Thanks go to the SOF and Ed and Dom for their work!
See Ed's blog on the emonocot site: http://e-monocot.org/emonocot-and-swiss-orchid-foundation-collaboration
Paphiopedilum bellatulum (Rchb.f.) Stein is one of five species in the subgenus Brachypetalum (Cribb, 2011).
Photo: PJ Cribb
Earlier this week I returned from the EOC in Budapest where I presented an overview of the emonocot project, and our work related to orchids.
Paul, Ed and I have just returned from two days of meetings in Basel with Lucienne de Witte of the Swiss Orchid Foundation.
Thanks to Lucienne for the great hospitality and interesting discussions. Thanks also to Peter Linder, David Basler and the ZIVIs Dominique and Rarsim.
Below are a few photos from the meeting. Lucienne and I will both be attending the European Orchid Congress in Budapest next weekend (12th to 15th April) and no doubt there will be more discussions about how the SOF and emonocot can work together.
This one popped up on my phone on my commute to work this morning: Paphiopedilum fairrieanum growing in the intermediate room of a Swedish orchidarium
http://www.orchidkarma.com/paphiopedilum-fairrieanum/
As Karma suggests in her blog (see link above), this species has something rather "Victorian" about it - and evokes the orchid hunting era of the 1800s.
Laurence and I are working at the NHM today, uploading content for the new Cypripedioideae Scratchpad for emonocot.
