Yes, Guido,
That is quite exact. In Brazil, Brieguer was in charge of the genetic dept.,
and the nursery of ESALQ, that is the agricultural college of Universidade
de São Paulo, here in Piracicaba, where I live, about 150 kms out of São
Paulo.
He did a remarcable job here and put together a very large nursery with
species of most of orchid genera, some of them hard to see around, at least
in Brazil. Brieguer left just a couple o years before I became interested
about orchids during the 70ths, but we still hear a lot about him in ESALQ.
After he left, for circa 20 dark years the nursery was under the rule of
Hamilton Bicalho, one of the more detestable persons I've ever met. This was
a time of steady and continuous decacadence. After Bicalho's death we had
professor Sodero who was interested on the nursery but his time was brief
for he died soon after started making improvements.
Now there is no one particularly interested on the nursery and it seems
quite abandoned, placed under secundary occupations of their managers. It is
a pity for they still do have about 18 thousand plants, spite much of the
diversity was lost, and keeps being.
This all is interesting because it was in ESALQ that I first saw D. toressae
and, I guess, it is the only place where it is cultivated in Brazil.
Dalton
David, I am not sure whether you are aware of the situation under which
those transfers occurred. Brieger had published his treatment on
"Dendrobium sensu lato" in the 3rd edition of Schlechter's Die Orchideen
(which was started in 1971 and was finished by Senghas over 30 years
later). Brieger (pers. communication) didn't give a hoot about the
International Code of Nomenclature, his opinion was that this is just a
bunch of "rules" passed by a botanist association who has no legal
authority to do so (de facto he was right ... but that is another story).
However, Brieger's view meant that he did not see the necessity to
"validate" his transfers. Now comes Rauchert, a young orchid freak who
wanted his name on many species. So he just published all the Brieger
transfers in a form that made them "valid" according to the Code. As far
as Botany is concerned Rauchert didn't know what the heck he was doing and
therefore, his "judgement" is rather dubious. Brieger had been an
assistant at Kew for some years before he went to Brasil, but he was
mainly a Geneticist.
I hope this adds something to your informations
regards
Guido
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35633 Lahnau
Deutschland/Germany
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