This article was passed on to me. I thought I would post it for you. It is the March 2008 issue of Neodiversity. The article continues the work of Chiron & Castro, but uses three instead of one molecular data sets. The conclusions are opposite to the previous. Laelia and Sophronitis should be sunk into Cattleya. The names can be retained as sub-genera, but it gets away from the rediculous issue of having Laelia tenebrosa become of Sophronitis. They are all Cattleya now.
Has anyone at the RHS commented on this work? http://www.iosoc.com/forward-2/Other-orchids/VdB%20neod3102.pdf _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [email protected] http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
