Phalaenopsis taxonomy
 

Well done, thanks for preparing these pages! I have bookmarked them.

Thank you! I found that to be very helpful in understanding how the groups are related. It was interesting. I'll bookmark it.

I made this a sticky thread for easy access :)

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Thank you for posting it ! :bowing

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I just want to bump this back up because altough it's a sticky people who read via 'New Posts' or 'Todays Posts' might have missed it, just like I had.

This is a fantastic resource. I've been trying to explain to a friend the difference between the type of species Phals I am now really taking an interest in and the mass market hybrids... I look at this and see that all the ones that have that certain 'look' which I couldn't describe are all part of the sub-genus Polychilos.

I hadn't even realised that sub-genus, section and sub-sections existed but it all makes such wonderful sence with these pics and I can show my friend just what I mean.

I notice that none of these look particularly like the mass market hybrids... which all look very similar to each other when you see the variaty of Phal species here.

How did I miss this? It is a great Sticky! Thanks for the bump Rosie.

OK, that's pretty amazing.

Thanks for posting.

love this!!! gonna study this... i am currently interested in collecting species phals, partly because of failure in flowering the hybrids due to warm weather and success in flowering the species ones.

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The site of Bernard Lagrelle about species, climate, culture…(the English version)
French site : phalaenopsis.org
And the site of Alain Brochard (species and primary hybrids)

Seems like it would be a nice resource, but my security software identifies it as a site associated with malicious software, scams or fraud.

OPs link appears to be down.

Neither of the links seem to be working(?)

This link no longer works.

Note the date of the post... 2014 ... websites come and go... I have to check my own website "Links" page occasionally to make sure the various links still work... and inevitably find a few that don't.

If the topic was Phalaenopsis taxonomy, sites of that vintage would be either obsolete or much changed at any rate. With the lumping of Doritis into Phalaenopsis, Doritaenopsis went away which also messed up the names of a bunch of hybrids, causing some ambiguities. (Which is why there are some Phal hybrid names with the date of registration as part of the ID) And some other Vandaceous species got lumped into Phalaenopsis too, so the line between "Phalaenopsis" and "Vandaceous" has gotten very fuzzy as well.

As I noted in another post, these changes aren't arbitrary, they're the result of DNA analysis that sometimes gives a much different picture of how species are related than the IDs from form (morphology), habitat, etc. that have historically been used to describe species and genera. Science is messy - and dynamic. Answers lead to more questions. I don't change my tags, keeping up with the scientific changes keeps my brain active.

Probably time to remove this sticky since the link is a dead end.

Agreed... its reason for being a sticky no longer exists.