Cattleya labiata var. rosada '#2'

[Rosim_in_BR]

Originally Posted by Jan Pahl

Beautiful plant Mauro!!!

I don't use varietal names because in Venezuela orchidiologist don't like to name each color or lip variation, but wen I have to give a "name" to this phenotype only for personal records, normally I use "suavissima" to distinguish it from true rosy ones..

I use a "classification" way only for personal records (never public ones) that looks like this......

Jan

Quite interesting system. I'm re-reading it later with careful attention trying to form a mental image of what you describe.
In the especific case of this flower 'suavissima' would fit well and I would prefer it instead of 'rosada' because it describes better the color characteristics, but it is formally described as 'rosada', so... what to do!
By the way, yes, it is a shame that inside the same genus the varietal names are not uniformly used to designate the same phenotypes.