Sexual Mimicry in Orchids

[Jeffrey Kirby]

I already asked this of the rec.gardens.orchids group, but my thirst for 
knowledge and sources remains unsatiated (I didn't get enough responses). 
There are a number of orchids that mimic the female form of the 
pollinating insect and produce certain chemical attractants, resulting in 
pseudocopulation with the insect resulting in pollination of the orchid. 
I have a list of around sixteen Australian genera in which some or all 
the species do this, and then there's Ophrys in Europe, and Trichoceros 
in the Andes and an Oncidium species (what a run-on sentence). What I 
want is the names of more orchids that display sexual mimicry and sources 
where I can get such plants.

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Jeffrey A. Kirby 
Jester of Xanadu
ez043438 at dale.ucdavis.edu

It's Brad's fault.