Pat Brennan wrote:
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Does any one know the answers to these?

When AOS judges in foreign countries are only plants legal in the US
considered?
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This should answer that one:

"This species received its first American Orchid Society award at the
Club Peruana de Orquideas show in Lima, Peru in October 2003:
Phragmipedium kovachii 'Mem. Grimanesa Manrique', CHM/AOS (94 points)."

Quoted from: http://autrevie.com/Articles/Phrag_kovachii.html

Steve