renaming question

[silken]

Originally Posted by fredr

Yupp, but as Rhynchosophrocattleya Chia Pet or Rsc. - I know, it takes some getting used to with these new names.

I already changed the labels.
Fred

My latest version of OrchidWiz shows it as Rlc. (Rhyncholaeliocattleya) or Pot. (Potinara). But no matter, it will change again before I finish typing this

[fredr]

I got mine straight from the registration file at the RHS.

[Ray]

So is the registration file at the RHS maintained with the accepted taxonomy at the time of registration, or is it updated?

[goodgollymissmolly]

I am always amazed at people who start these threads apparently to argue about it. Even more amazing they seem to find data to support their false belief. The RHS hybrid database is always updated to reflect taxonomic changes in the species involved. Sometimes the change is delayed or presented in both the old and new nomenclature to ease the revision. Not here. The change is done.


Copied from the registrar's website:

Rhyncholaeliocattleya Chia Pet

Genus Rhyncholaeliocattleya
Epithet Chia Pet
Synonym Flag
This is not a synonym
Synonym Genus Name Potinara
Registrant Name Fender's Flora
Originator Name Fender's Flora
Date of registration 20/07/2007
Seed parent Pollen parentGenus Rhyncholaeliocattleya Rhyncholaeliocattleya
Epithet Chia Lin Beaufort Gold

This really is not hard. Since Brassavola digbyana became Rhyncholaelia digbyana and the genus Sophronitis became absorbed into Cattleya, the parentage of this hybrid became Rhyncholaelia x Cattleya and thus the nothogenus becomes Rhyncholaeliocattleya.

It's not argumentative and it is correct in the hybrid database. I'm not sure when facts became opinionated.