Species Orchids?

[jkofferdahl]

What Jorch says is correct, of course. However, it goes further than that. Yes, technically one could say that a species plant is one that occurs naturally, but species plants are hybridized with other plants of the exact same species to try to breed toward a certain characteristic in the plant; while technically these are also species, they're also technically hybrids, especially after multiple generations. Look, for example, at all of the variance and breeding that has occurred in Neofinitia falcata or Phal. pulcherrima, where some have actual hybrid names after the species name. Though these have never bred outside of the species, the breeding has been very intentionally directed. And then there are naturally occurring hybrids, such as Phalaenopsis intermedia (or Phal. X intermedia), which will be listed alongside the species plants despite being a hybrid.

Orchids seem to take a deep joy in keeping us confused.