September is the month for terrestrial orchids.  This month Spiro Kasomenakis takes us on a superbly illustrated armchair adventure to Crete and Attica to experience its terrestrial orchids and Sergey and Elena Skoropad take us to Iceland and one of its endemic native - Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. islandica.  Stig Dalström rounds out the terrestrials taking us to the mountain Kingdom of Bhutan to discover the genus Diplomeris.  Rounding out this month's features, David Rosenfeld fills us in on the life and times of Charles Darwin.  At a minimum don't miss the fabulous picture of Angraecum sesquipedale and its pollinating moth!

Rounding out our September issue

• GreatIdeas - Don't miss Jean Allen-Ikeson's discussion of power outages
• Genus of the Month - This month Tom Mirenda and Wolfgang Rysy join forces to present the genus Zootrophion whose curious flowers open but a mere slit to allow access by their pollinators.
• The New Refugium Botanicum - Phalaenopsis mariae
• Orchids Illustrated - Maxillaria
• Lindleyana - More new Ecuadorian Orchids by Hugo Medina, José Portilla and Iván Portilla