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Originally Posted by moria0672
Thank you very much Phantasm for the useful link.
It's very hard to be updated with the new nomenclature and the risk for the newbie is to buy the same orchid with two different names and have a duplicate in its collection. I believe that the orchid sellers should sell the orchid with the most known name (ex. Cattleya skinnery) and the last one (ex. Guarianthe skinnery).
What do you think about that??
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Most growers are focused upon one thing:
sales. Bottom line, they're out to make money (otherwise, why would they truly have a business?). They may also share the same interest in growing orchids and the science of orchids. The sellers will usually stick to the older, more commonly used names. Not many people sell
Laelia tenebrosa under the proper
Hadrolaelia tenebrosa, or even the misunderstood placement of
Sophronitis tenebrosa; the sellers are out there to sell something that someone is looking for, so they make it easier. I haven't even seen that many growers who "re-name" their
Brassavola digbyana to
Rhyncholaelia digbyana...
As for
Cattleya skinneri, it should be changed now to
Guarianthe skinneri... the
Guarianthe are VERY similar to
Cattleya, but yet, they don't seem to fit in with the
Cattleya concept...
-Pat
New orchids nomenclature
One has molecular "proof" to back it up, but yet, we can't argue that DNA analysis is accurate at this time, so Luer's morphological treatment is also proof... 
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