How Do I Choose Correct Gensus When Id'ing

[D&S Mabel]

Great Day All:

My orchid collection was starting to get a little out of hand and I decided to number every pot and keep records of what I did to each and when. I also started keeping photos of each and other info.

Keeping the genus name I thought would help me understand how to care for the plants. Finding that info seemed easy as, using the tags as a reference, I went to this website and looked up each one: Orchid Genus Names

This covered finding the genus for the majority of my orchids but did not fill in all the blank and I don't know how to figure these out for myself.


For example, a Blc. is a Brassolaeliocattleya (B x C x L) but what genus is a (Lc. x Bl.)? How about a (V. x Ascada.)? Does it make a difference if that plant were actually a (Ascada. x V.)?

I have a number of plants that are like the examples above.

Is there a good website or publication that will help me understand these in laypersons terms? -or- Do I just list the genus as "Hybrid" and be done with it??

Being an engineering type, these blanks in my data are driving me crazy!

Any help is appreciated!