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Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:39:05 -0800
From: "Eric Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [OGD] Need references for Ida portillae
To: "OrchidGuide Digest" <orchids@orchidguide.com>
Hi,
At the Pacific Orchid Exposition in San Francisco last weekend, I
photographed this stunning smaller-flowered Ida species. There were two
vendors in the show with the plant and they both call it Ida portillae.
I cannot find that species listed in either the IPNI or Mobot plant
databases online. It is also not shown in Oakley's Ida article in The Orchid
Digest vol. 67(1).
Is this a relatively new species? Can anyone shed any light on where I might
where the species was described? Is it completely misidentified?(something I
doubt, as both vendors exhibiting it are known for paying close attention to
the taxonomy of species in their collections.)
Here is my photograph of this Ida species:
http://www.orchidphotos.org/images/orchids/temp/Ida.jpg
Any comments would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
-Eric in SF
www.orchidphotos.org
Based on the information contained in the Orchid Digest article
(Jan/FEb/Mar 2003, v.67#1), the publication of the new genus Ida taken
from the fimbriatae section of Lycaste, Ida would seem to be the
appropriate generic name for plant. I can't find much on the species,
but from the pic it looks like it fits the Ida name. There's a pic of
Lycaste portillae on the ecuagenera site (Portillo/portillae - makes
sense). Whether this plant is in fact that species (which would now be
Ida portillae) I will leave to the taxonomists.
Tennis Maynard
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