What is the current state of the lumper/splitter debate?

[Fairorchids]

Originally Posted by Leafmite

We lost the person in our Orchid Society that kept up with all the name changes (he did all the registering for our shows, too).

It is not difficult to verify whether a name is current. For hybrids you enter the grex name in one of the databases (such as the RHS), and it returns all genera where the grex name is used. It is usually obvious which one is currently correct.

For species you can use Kew or Orchidroots. Same process.