Peter, thank you for your posting on the list. This type of reply makes it worth while asking questions on this list. I fully understand what you have said. Sorting out large groups orchids is a good thing and is definitely required but it seems that some in the orchid world ( not on this list that I know of ) do only half a job and the rest goes in the " too hard " basket.
They use their renown etc to bluff their way forward. A lot of work was done on the Aust' Nat' dends separating out some into the Dockrillia section. Down the track we find that this conclusion is not quite right and the plants have gone back to dendrobium. What interest me at present is the separation of the various Den. speciosum family. Den speciosum has been around so long and has been used so much in breeding over so many years, no-one will have the faintest idea whether a D.speciosum or D. scratchmybackianum was used in the past when & if the name changes are accepted. Plus the 10's of thousands of plants spread around the world " which one do I have or is it a crossing of 2 or more different ones.
I'm siding with Andy, leave the labels as they are for a number of years to see what happens.
Cheers, Roy.
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