Hi All! For those of you who are interested in the list of registered orchid hybrids, here are a few items:
1. The number of names in the list exceeded 120,000 during February and totaled 121,602 at the end of June, according to Julian Shaw as stated in the September-October Supplement of New Orchid Hybrids. 2. The orchid registrar has made a number of changes to the list of registered hybrids which have resulted in a re-assignment of genus names to more than 2200 hybrids in the Oncidium group, or just under 20% of the total registrations in this group. For example, two species formerly treated as Miltonia , Milt. schroederiana and Milt. warscewiczii, have been transferred to Oncidium as Onc. schroederianum, and Onc. fuscatum. This change results in a change of genus for the well known and highly awarded hybrid Colmanara Wildcat, which is now called Odontocidium Wildcat, among others. All of the equitant Oncidium species have been segregated out under the genus Tolumnia. The species changing to Tolumnia are: Tolu. arizajuliana (syn. Onc. arizajulianum); Tolu. bahamensis (syn. Onc. bahamense); Tolu. berenyce (syn. Onc. berenyce); Tolu. calochila (syn. Onc. calochilum); Tolu. caribensis (syn. Onc. caribense); Tolu. compressicaulis (syn. Onc. compressicaule); Tolu. concava (syn. Onc. concavum); Tolu. cunelabia (syn. Onc. cunelabium); Tolu. gauntlettii (syn. Onc. gauntlettii); Tolu. guianensis (syn. Onc. guianense, Onc. desertorum); Tolu. guibertiana (syn. Onc. guibertianum; Tolumnia lemoniana subsp. guibertiana); Tolu. haitiensis (syn. Onc. haitiense); Tolu. henekenii (syn. Onc. henekenii, Hispaniella henekeni,); Tolu. leiboldii (syn. Onc. leiboldii); Tolu. lemoniana (Onc. lemonianum); Tolu. lucayana (syn. Onc. lucayanum); Tolu. moiriana (syn. Onc. moirianum); Tolu. prionochila (syn. Onc. pri,onochilum); Tolu. pulchella (syn. Onc. pulchellum); Tolu. quadriloba (syn. Onc. quadrilobum); Tolu. scandens (syn. Onc. scandens); Tolu. sylvestris (syn. Onc. sylvestre); Tolu. tetrapetala (syn. Onc. tetrapetalum); Tolu. triquetra (syn. Onc. triquetrum); Tolu. urophylla (syn. Onc. urophyllum); Tolu. variegata (syn. Onc. variegatum); Tolu. velutina (syn. Onc. velutinum, Onc. variegatum var. velutinum, Onc. variegatum subsp. velutinum). Lastly, Onc. onustum has been changed to Zelenkoa onusta in the registry. I have compiled a list of hybrid names that have changed due to these revisions and placed it on our web site in an MS Word document. Visit the following web page for a link to this document: http://www.wildcattdata.com/NewWeb/news.htm. Regards, Helga Gray Wildcatt Database Company. _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids
