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Natural hybrids like Dendrobium *delicatum (= den kingianum*den speciosum)
and sarcochillus *fitshart (=sarco fitsgeraldi*hartmanii) are not written
with a capital letter. They are written like normal species, jus with a X or
* in front of it. Another orchid I know of is cattleya *guatemalensis (=catt
aurantiaca*catt skinneri)
Cheers
Peter


"Al" schreef in bericht
...
Straight out of "The Handbook on Orchid Nomenclature and Registration" 4th
edition 1993
Page 4 under The names of Natural Hybrids of Orchids
there are two examples cited:

"x Laeliocattleya leeana 'Picardy' is the cultivar name of a cultivar of
the
natural intergeneric hybrid between Cattleya loddigesii and Laelia pumila"

"x Dactyglossum mixtum (Dactylorhiza fuchsii x Coeloglossum viride)"

I think, somewhere in this book is a paragraph explaining which name takes
precedence, the artificial grex name or natural hybrid name, depending on
when the plant in question was identified as a natural hybrid versus when
it
was registered as an artificial hybrid, but I can't find it.

"Ray" wrote in message
...
I'm putting together a piece on how orchids are named, or should I say
the
way the names are written, and need some examples of natural hybrids,
both
inter-species and intergeneric.

I believe that Paph X wellesleyanum (concolor x godefroyae) is an
inter-specific example, but I can't think of any intergenerics.

Anyone know any good examples?

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