Hybrids with Euanthe sanderiana parentage

[tropterrarium]

Hi Ray,

That is fun-ny! But a taxonomy BS is BS. I've never heard of an undergraduate degree with that emphasis. Even UG classes in nomenclature/taxonomy/systematics are very rare. It gets touched upon in evolution, but only marginally (that's how we did it when I taught pop-gen & evolution as an upper division class).

Real systematics is only taught/learned in grad-school. I never had a single formal class in anything systematics, just learned it from books/papers, advisors, and colleagues. The best "course" is an actual project including write-up as a paper. It's swim or sink. Either you learn fast, or you wash out.

Re original Epidendrum, there was also Orchis for the terrestrial ones. I assume you know the adults-only story behind the name Orchis, which still echoes in the German common name Knabenkraut (= Boy's herb).