I received an 'official' response from AOS ( that was quick ) and I have cut and pasted from the e-mail :
Thank you for your email. I have consulted with one of our foremost experts and this is his reply to your query:
"Cattleya walkeriana 'Pendentive' has clearly been shown genetically to be a walkeriana. That work was done by Yukawa a number of years ago. His work looked very carefully at the sequencing of a large number of walkeriana cultivars and specimens that could be traced back to jungle collection. Pendentive is not, as was speculated, the result of a selfing of 'Orchidglade' but Jones & Scully never really said it was. What they indicated was that it might have but there was no definitive proof. In the sequencing study, Pendentive is very closely related to a white cultivar from Japan called, I believe, Sakura and is likely from a selfing of that cultivar or a sibbing with a sister seedling. Without question Pendentive is a walkeriana.
Kenny, on the other hand is clearly not a walkeriana but is of hybrid origin. It falls in the sequence between dolosa and walkeriana. It is also not a dolosa based on its position on the tree. The closest hybrid that makes sense is C. Snow Blind and as a result the AOS award record has been altered to reflect that. You will find the award to 'Kenny' listed as C. Snow Blind 'Kenny', FCC/AOS. The awards to Pendentive remain as C. walkeriana."
I trust that this clarifies the issue.
Based on the above explanation, my walkeriana IS a walkeriana and not a hybrid. If anything OrchidWiz is incorrect in that it still shows 'Kenny' as being awarded under walkeriana. Maybe their data download can't handle a retrospective data change.
Anyone is free to dispute the AOS response, but obviously the appropriate avenue would be direct to AOS as they are the arbiter of record.
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update. Bloom is sweetly fragrant. Looks a bit lop-sided as if someone pinched the bud on one side when it was developing, but I will take it. Colour is great.
Hopefully it will be better when it blooms again.......hopefully later this year.
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