[OGD] Peruvian Orchid Nurseries vs INRENA and Peruflora

On a previous Orchid Guide, the following posting was made:   On July 13 2006, a Peruvian Government  document referred to as Decreto Supremo No. 043-2006-AG announced that Peruvian Orchid Nurseries may no longer export collected orchids. From now on all orchids exported must have been propa

[OGD] Masdevallia cloud forest gem

Dear OGD's Here is a more interesting genus. Masdevallia. A high elevation, cool to cold growing cloudforest denizen. I always enjoy getting into forests that have them. Often it is hard to see and find them if the clouds are down to the ground, which happens often. It is an eerie feeling bein

[OGD] Zadith Alegria de Moore's letter re Peruvian legislation.

Zadith's letter (protesting the decree which will force Peruvian Orchid exporters to switch from exporting adult plants to exporting in-vitro seedlings) contained the following factual error, which needs to be corrected. Zadith said: "No country in the world has ever imposed or required such a dra

[OGD] Continuation of Masdevallia

Dear OGD's Here is the continuation of needed Masdevallia photos for IOSPE.Please send as jpeg files to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Masdevallia icterina Mas idae Mas indecora Mas ingridiana Mas irapana Mas ishikoi Mas isos Masdevallia jimenezii Mas josei Mas juanalbertoi Mas kalbreyeri Mas karineae Mas kyp

[OGD] Masdevallia fasciata and Masdevallia heteroptera

Hi all, A very knowledgeable orchidist corrected a name I'd found on the Kew World Checklist. I recently photographed a plant with the label M. fasciata, but when I researched the name on the Checklist, Kew says that M. fasciata is a synonym of M. heteroptera, so that's what I labeled the plant on

[OGD] Chicago show & toes

Hello All, For those of you that didn't get to the Chicagoland festival I think the unveiling of this new renovated venue will be interesting, especially with the vendors involved... The old space was really nice & this could be even better. I know I'm bad at math & I need my barefoot toes to

Re: [OGD] Masdevallia fasciata and Masdevallia heteroptera

Eric, I suspect that here is another case where the Kew Monocot Checklist is wrong. Both these species (and 6 others) were transferred to the new genus Rodrigoa in Die Orchidee 30(1979):213-222 by Lothar Braas. In this article Braas provides excellent line drawings and both color and black and

[OGD] HTML Scrub on the OGD

Hello John, I believe, the program (pipermail) that is used on the OGD to automatically send postings to all readers only sends posts that are sent in plain text or the plain text portion of a post. In this example ("An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL://pipermail/orchids_orchidguide.com

[OGD] The rest of Masdevallia for IOSPE

I think that there are more than 450 species in this genus now that I have gone through the whole list. Iospe has 279 of them now. Please help the site to get much dloser to all the species of the genus Masdevallia pescadoensis Mas phasmatodes Mas phlogina Mas picta Mas planadensis Mas plantagine