I love taxonomy....while others get frustrated by all the changes, seemingly arbitrary, I get thrilled....I am fascinated by the idea of truly identifying orchids (or any other organism I am interested in) as accurately as possible...so I am really fascinated by the revision placing Brazilian Laelias into Sophronitis.....That said....it is of purely intellectual significance for me. As for my plants, well, my Laelia purpurata will still have a tag that says Laelia purpurata...I am not using it for scientific purposes, just my own purposes of enjoyment...were I to write a scientific paper about it, well I'd call it Sophronitis...but I'm not about to do that as I simply teach science these days....I know that the plant I have labelled Paph hainanense is really P. appletonianum, but since it looks different, I keep it labelled hainanense..not for scientific accuracy, but just for easy at-home classification. Take care, Eric Muehlbauer in Queens NY watching my wardii open......with fingers crossed for micranthum and emersonii
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