Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described

Reichenbachia: Orchids Illustrated and Described is a four-volume 19th-century text created by German-born orchidologist Frederick Sander which features life-size illustrations and descriptions of nearly two hundred orchids with text in English, French, and German.

Named in honor of the renowned German orchidologist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Reichenbachia was a collaboration between Sander and English landscape painter Henry George Moon, who created most of the illustrations.

[1] Reichenbachia was created as a two-series set with two volumes per series, with two separate editions being published.

[3] The plates were created using woodcut blocks, chromolithography, and in a few cases hand colored.

Other illustrators that contributed are W. H. Fitch, A. H. Loch, George Hansen, Charles Storer, J. Watton, and James Laird Macfarlane [Wikidata].