Vanda vietnamica finally in bloom!!!!

[Bud]

Originally Posted by CR7cristiano

Finally I get to see a nice up close picture of one of these.....I love it! Great growing; looks very healthy. This by the way is a Natural hybrid not a specie of vanda Bud. Just to clear that up.
I definitely want to get one now though, wasn't sure before.

Thanks for the visit.

* how did you arrive at the conclusion that Vanda vietnamica formerly known as Christensonia vietnamica is a hybrid?
That is news to me....

Scientific Classification :
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family:Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Vandeae
SubTribe: Aeridinae
Genus: Christensonia
Species: C. vietnamica
Binomial name:
Christensonia vietnamica
Haager 1993

Maybe you can give me the parent hybrid of Vanda vietnamica.…if you say it is a hybrid?

[CR7cristiano]

Originally Posted by Bud

Thanks for the visit.

* how did you arrive at the conclusion that Vanda vietnamica formerly known as Christensonia vietnamica is a hybrid?
That is news to me....

Scientific Classification :
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family:Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Vandeae
SubTribe: Aeridinae
Genus: Christensonia
Species: C. vietnamica
Binomial name:
Christensonia vietnamica
Haager 1993

Maybe you can give me the parent hybrid of Vanda vietnamica.…if you say it is a hybrid?

A natural Hybrid is one occurring on its own in nature.
As of now it was moved from the genus christensonia to vanda and vietnamica is the epithet. Those two come together to create this natural hybrid. Now classified as a vanda.

[Bud]

I also know that the RHS is the last bastion to acknowledge anything new in orchid names but as of today I found that Vanda vietnamica is a specie according to RHS...but RHS has been wrong a couple of times before about names of orchids:

The International Orchid Register / RHS Gardening

or else they will capitalize the 'V' on the name vietnamica if it is a hybrid.
maybe you have an article that says it is really a hybrid....lets read it....please show us.

[CR7cristiano]

As far as I know this is a natural hybrid....nothing in writing. Just that it only recently has been identified originating out of vietnam. A lot more is left to be said about this orchid.

[Bud]

you have an orchid wiz....what does it say about this orchid?

[CR7cristiano]

I will have to ask my hybridizer this weekend at our society meeting because my orchid wiz expired for some time now....

[Bud]

Oh ok....I really welcome new information and anything that might add to my knowledge about my orchids. I really do appreciate this.

[CR7cristiano]

Originally Posted by Bud

Oh ok....I really welcome new information and anything that might add to my knowledge about my orchids. I really do appreciate this.

Definitely. I too can learn more on this as well, which I always am happy to do.

[Bud]

This is an article by:
LAUREN MARIA GARDINER
Herbarium, Library, Art and Archives, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AE, United Kingdom (2012) Copyright © 2012 Magnolia Press.
http://www.windsororchidsociety.ca/u...rchidaceae.pdf
lists my plant as:
-"Vanda vietnamica (Haager) L.M.Gardiner, comb. nov.
Basionym: Christensonia vietnamica Haager (1993: 40).
Distribution:—Vietnam"-

*this is also the article where I discovered Neofinetia falcata is now Vanda falcata.

-"Vanda falcata (Thunb.) Beer (1854: 317).
Basionym: Orchis falcata Thunberg (1784: 811).
Homotypic synonyms:
Limodorum falcatum (Thunb.) Thunberg (1794: 326).
Angraecum falcatum (Thunb.) Lindley (1821: t15).
Oeceoclades falcata (Thunb.) Lindley (1833: 237).
Aerides thunbergii Miquel (1866: 205).
Angorchis falcata (Thunb.) Kuntze (1891a: 651).
Angraecopsis falcata (Thunb.) Schlechter (1914: 601).
Finetia falcata (Thunb.) Schlechter (1918: 140).
Neofinetia falcata (Thunb.) Hu (1925: 107).
Nipponorchis falcata (Thunb.) Masamune (1934: 592).
Holcoglossum falcatum (Thunb.) Garay & H.R.Sweet (1972: 182).
Heterotypic synonyms:
Oeceoclades lindleyi von Regel (1866: 70).
Distribution:—China, Japan, Korea, Nansei-Shoto (Ryukyu) Islands.
Notes:—Vanda falcata was proposed in 1854 by Beer in Prakt. Stud. Orchid. before being placed in
Neofinetia in 1925."-

[CR7cristiano]

Well what they are doing now is classifying everything that is a vanda hybrid as a vanda....for instance there is no more ascocenda...they are all now just called vanda. To me it confuses everything...but I suppose they are trying to simplify things.
So ascocenda John de biase is now vanda John de biase for example. among other hybrid crosses with vanda and other non pure vanda in the vandaceous orchids family. smh.