Here are some interesting numbers that I was able to come up with:
the most awarded grexes/species:
1) Orchid World (100)
2) violacea (93)
3) amboinensis (67)
4) equestris (40)
5) Maraldee (38)
6) Sweet Memory (35)
7) gigantea (33)
8) Solar Flare (29)
9) Misty Green (28)
10) Doris (28)
11) Ambo Buddha (28)
14) amabilis
16) stuartiana
17) schillerana
so we have 4 of the top 11 grexes/species were species, and 7 of the top 22 grexes were species.
One thing that is obvious is that the top 4 phal species are highly awarded in large numbers, and have ben linebred to "improve" the quality over time.
This is a bit skewed at the top. However as more plants were included to the top 100 Phals awarded, 17 were species and 83 were hybrids.
When you consider that there are around 60 phal species, and several thousand phal hybrids, the percentages drop considerably.
I wasn't able to obtain the specific percentages, but phals have been awarded about 6800 times by the AOS and the vast majority are hybrids.
Schillerana has 20,987 hybrids in it's progeny, stuartiana has 19,290, amabilis has 24,249, equestris has 15,091, amboinensis has 8,645, and etc.
Of course, some of the hybrids are combinations of these species that are repeated in the progeny.
After seeing the numbers of hybrids that have been created, even though a large number of them have not been awarded there are many that have a few awards.
My guess is that the number of species awards versus hybrids is something around 5% of the total.
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