Running down a new hybrid name

[Fairorchids]

Some 12-18 months ago, I bought a group of seedlings, which showed this on the label:

C. Fire Fantasy x Sl. Polestar

It is a true miniature, and I have just bloomed the first one. So, I wanted to check whether it has been registered.

The genus ID for the pollen parent is clearly wrong, since:

• all Sophronitis species have been transferred to Cattleya.
• the Brazilean Laelias (but NOT the Mexican Laelias) have been transferred to Cattleya.

First step: Go to The RHS database, and do a Grex Name Search, using % in the genus field, and Polestar in the grex field. Only one hit: Rlc. Hamana Polestar. Looked at the parents (just in case), they are not right for a miniature.

Second step: Try again, this time entering Pole Star (not first time a name has been mis-spelled). This time there are NO hits.

Third step: Do an internet search for photos. 3 or 4 screens deep, I come across Sl. Pole-Star!

Go back to The RHS database, and find out that C. Pole-Star is the valid name.

Next, in the parent search, I tried C. Fire Fantasy x C. Pole-Star. NO hits.

Finally, when I reversed the parents (C. Pole-Star x C. Fire Fantasy), did I get a hit. This hybrid was registered back in 2014 by Gold Country Orchids as C. Sunrise Fantasy.

I detest The RHS database!

Anyway, attached are a couple of photos of this little cutie in a 3" pot. For the record, it is 1/2 C. coccinea, 1/4 C. briegeri & 1/4 complex white hybrid. The picotee is genetically a form for splash petal; that trait comes out of the C. Wayndora grandparent on the complex hybrid side.