Hybrids are not under the purview of CITES, species are.

Species imported prior to the adoption by the various nations are legal from
an ownership standpoint, assuming you can prove you got them pre-CITES.

Taxonomists change things around al the time. Phal violacea has been around
forever, but Phal bellina was broken out as its own species far more
recently, so there could be a cross of A x violacea from 1950 that was made
with bellina (violacea fma. Borneo), even though bellina didn't exist then.

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"flosaeris" wrote in message
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What are the rules about owning a registered hybred (wildcat reg. in
1995) that the parents are apparently considered endangered? The
hybred was registered in 1995 as Paph a X Paph b. When I look the
plant up in google these two parents are listed in many places as
Paph a var b, and even in others that Paph a var b is considered a
new newly discovered species in 2000/1. How can that be if a cross
was registered in 1995?

Thanx