C Walkeriana

[terryros]

Although I have 3 walkerianas of different types (all from Orchids Limited) and am bothered by any walkeriana that doesn't have its flower spike as a separate spike off of the rhizome rather than coming from the leaf axil, I know that there are many different orchid species about which there is controversy.

In some of these species debates there are groups of experts on each side.

My specific question about the most recent part of this discussion concerns the AOS role in these kinds of things. I know that the RHS is the body that establishes naming rights for hybrids. The AOS doesn't have authority over naming of hybrids.

When it comes to taxonomic naming rights of genera and species (including recent genetic information) which body officially decides things? I know it exists and it isn't the AOS. Is it under the RHS or something completely different? They would be the body that would have to pass on this issue of different varieties of walkeriana.


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