New species of Calydorea
Mary Sue Ittner (Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:03:06 PST)

Dear All,

Germán has added information about the new species of Calydorea, Calydorea
alba, that he and Alberto have published to the wiki Calydorea page:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

I have also linked to the pdf file on our wiki page for this publication
information on Calydorea alba in case you want to download it. It can also
be found on Germán's web site:
http://www.agro.uba.ar/users/roitman/
It is in English. He and Alberto are very generous to share this
information with the world as most of us do not subscribe to the
publications where you can find out about new species or revisions.
Germán has a lot of pictures of orchids on his site for the orchid lovers
in our group.

I looked up some of the Calydorea species as I was adding to that page and
they have had many different names and switched from genus to genus. What a
challenge for growers to keep them straight. It turns out the reason
Calydorea coelestina is called Betram's Ixia is because one name for it, if
not its first name, was Ixia coelestina and Betram published that name.
This plant also been called Salpingostylis coelestina and Sphenostigma
coelestinum. Are some of these name changes associated with Ravenna and
therefore not always accepted?

Mary Sue