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World Orchid Iconography

The World Orchid Iconography (WOI) is a public domain online database of orchid photographs, scans of herbarium sheets and scientific illustrations

The World Orchid Iconography (WOI) is a service of the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz. We scan orchid photographs of trustful orchideologists, herbarium sheets of important collections and scientific illustrations of historical books and folios. All image material (currently over 120.000 pictures) is provided free to the public as medium resolution pictures for scientific and o

ther purposes on our website: https://orchid.unibas.ch. High resolution pictures can be provided on demand. Just send us an E-Mail to our E-Mail-address: [email protected]. If you would like to publish the downloaded pictures, our policy is, that you must cite the original author (mentioned below the picture at the copyright symbol), mention the Swiss Orchid Foundation in the acknowledgments, and send us a free copy of your publication. How to cite a picture: author family name, initial of first name. (year of publication): title of picture. - URL (date of download). E.g.: Senghas, K. (1990): 601568m.jpg. - https://orchid.unibas.ch (28.05.2014).

23/11/2015

458 orchid slides by Jany Renz from Iran, Italy, Switzerland and Germany were scanned during the last few weeks and are now newly available in the World Orchid Iconography (search for "Collector/Photo by: J. Renz", "Collection: Slides").
https://orchid.unibas.ch/index.php/en/database-search/advanced-search

Thus, the digitization of the Renz slide collection has been completed.

We thank again our volunteer Marianne Schweizer who has looked through Jany Renz' slides, catalogued them and completed her excellent work during the last month!

22/10/2015

A new orchid key for the genus Vanda has been created and is now online! Furthermore, the existing key for the genus Cypripedium has been adapted to the new security standarts of most browsers and changed to the same format as the Vanda key.

You can find both keys as well as the key for European orchids at https://orchid.unibas.ch/index.php/en/orchidinfos/orchid-keys.

Since January 2009, the European orchid species in the World Orchid Iconography may be accessed through an interactive key. The visitors of our website may determine their own images of orchids easily: all European orchid species are filtered using morphological criteria. For example, all European o…

03/07/2015

We are happy to announce the relaunch of our website in a brand new design. During the last few months, we improved the layout of the website, structured the content more clearly and made the site more user-friendly. We also made sure that the website is technologically up-to-date and improved our database search function. All old features like the database search, BibliOrchidea, the orchid keys, the genus descriptions or our
Renziana webshop are of course still available with a new, improved look. We are very pleased with the final result and hope that you will be as well. visit https://orchid.unibas.ch

15/10/2014

We are very happy to announce the bestowal of the Swiss Orchid Research Award 2014 (SORA) to Prof. Cássio van den Berg for his work on the phylogeny of the genus Cattleya.

The SORA is a yearly award for scientific orchid research in the fields of evolutionary and reproductive biology, taxonomy, anatomy, physiology and ecology of orchids.

The Award will be hold:
Date: 9th of December, 2014, from 17.00 until 19.00,
Place: The Visitor's Green House in the Botanical Garden of the University of Basel (Schönbeinstrasse 6, 4056 Basel)

We hope to see you there! You can find the official invite on our homepage: http://bit.ly/1raSexq
And keep an eye out for new additions to the WOI, we have some exciting things to announce!

31/07/2014

Dear Orchid-Friends,

We are happy to announce the expansion of our database. Schlechter`s collection of orchids of New Guinea (1441 species) is now available on our website. Follow the link and choose the book "Figurenatlas zu den Orchidaceen von Deutsch-Neu-Guinea" to have a look into the drawings of the book:

https://orchid.unibas.ch/site.books_db.php

Enjoy the wonderful drawings!

With our best wishes,

Swiss Orchid Foundation at the herbarium Jany Renz

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