Phalaenopsis taxonomy

[volcowitch]

Orchids Wiki - Phalaenopsis taxonomy

[Phantasm]

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

[Hera]

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

[Dorothy]

I made this a sticky thread for easy access

[volcowitch]

I'm glad that you like this message.

[Dorothy]

Thank you for posting it !

[volcowitch]

Phalaenopsis synonyms

[Dorothy]

[RosieC]

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.

[trdyl]

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