Featured this month

Jim Cootes continues his multipart series on the genus Dendrobium and its relatives with Part 22: The genus Diplocaulobium. The members of the section have been known over the years under numerous genus names and are now considered by Plants of the World online to a section (Diplocaulobium) of a greatly expanded genus Dendrobium. Landy Rajaovelona and colleagues introduce us to the orchids of the Itremo Massif Protected Area of Madagascar and Leon Glicenstein shares some of his hybrids with the terrestrial Pteroglossa roseoalba.

Rounding out the September 2026 issue

• Gift a Youth Update - Supporting the Next Generation: How a Gifted AOS Membership Helped Strengthen an Orchid Career by Deb Boersma
• Tom's Monthly Checklist by Thomas Mirenda
• Questions and Answers by Ron McHatton
• For the Novice - Orchid Disease Control: Part 1 by Sue Bottom
• Collector’s Item - Santanderella amadorinconiana by Judith Rapacz-Hasler
• Education Update - Ecuador: At the Crossroads of Orchid Education, Conservation and Discovery. Reflections from the VIII Scientific Conference on Andean Orchids by René Enrique García 
• Orchids Illustrated - Orchids as National Flowers by Wesley Higgins and Peggy Alrich
  My Favorite Orchid - Cattleya purpurata by Richard Kelley
• Lindleyana - Maxillaria paucicolorata Č. Florián sp. nov by Čestmir Florián
• New Nothogenera, Combinations and Names by Julian Shaw