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Old 28-02-2004, 12:02 PM
Mark Fraser
 
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Default Classification of lesser known genera of orchids



Bob Betts wrote:
I am 8 names away from finishing a document containing every genus
name I have found from at least a dozen different sources.


What I need to know is what tribe and subtribe (if there is one) they
would belong in so that I can figure out what other genera they are
related to and hence what display class to put them in.

The names in question, and what I know about them, a

Puracaleana - I can't even remember where I saw this name.

I seem to recall seeing Puracalaena as a typographic/orthographic error
for Paracalaena, a small genus of terrestrials from Australia and New
Zealand. They were segregated from Calaena, the Flying Duck Orchid.