Ophrys fusca or lupercalis.

[Andrew]

Originally Posted by SteveC

The constant changing of names actually only succeeding in causing the sort of confusion that the whole scientific / Latin name system was meant to prevent.
Didn't you have some similar issues in Australia with Pterostylis?

Yes, several of the larger Australian genera were split up. The majority of people still use the lumped genera and the popularity of the split genera amongst botanists and laymen seems to vary between states. While changes in genus taxonomy are inconvenient, at least you don't actually lose any information about a given plant by changing the name, like you do when splitting and lumping species, so it's little more than a tom-ay-to/to-mar-to argument for non-scientists. Personally, I switch between names depending on who I'm talking to. All of my Australian terrestrials are labelled with the split genus names, though. The split genera of Pterostylis, Caladenia, Corybas, etc have different cultural requirements so labelling plants with the split names quickly tells me how to grow a plant. I'm much more interested in my labels being useful than 'correct'.