Anyone can name an orchid ... the RHS (Royal Horticultural Society) legitimizes the name. To register a plant, you have to know the parents and get the permission of the person that made the cross. The vandae, because of the huge market for cut flowers, oftentimes are mericloned and sold under a clonal name (clonal name is important for American Orchid Society awards but is not part of RHS registered name). I bought a lovely hot pink Mokara Calypso that I learned later is really a mericloned Mokara Walter Oumae 'Calypso'.
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