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Originally Posted by Dusty Ol' Man
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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.
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