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The grex name then applies to all hybrids between those two parents. There is a permitted exception if the full name of one of the parents is known but the other is known only to genus level or nothogenus level. [13] New grex names are now established by the Royal Horticultural Society, which receives applications from orchid hybridizers. [14] [15]
This was continued as Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (1866–1975). [2] Since 1975 it has been entitled The Garden as a monthly publication. The RHS also publishes both The Plant Review and The Orchid Review four times a year, and Hanburyana, an annual publication dedicated to horticultural taxonomy since 2006. [2] [34] [35]
The genus name comes from the Ancient Greek ὄρχις (órkhis), literally meaning "testicle", because of the shape of the twin tubers in some species of Orchis. [31] [32] [33] The term "orchid" was introduced in 1845 by John Lindley in School Botany, [34] as a shortened form of Orchidaceae. [35]
This is a list of genera in the orchid family (Orchidaceae), originally according to The Families of Flowering Plants - L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz. This list is adapted regularly with the changes published in the Orchid Research Newsletter which is published twice a year by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
It reflects the considerable progress in orchid taxonomy that had been made since Dressler published his classification in 1993. In the 1990s, orchid taxonomy began to be influenced by molecular phylogenetics based on DNA sequences. The first molecular phylogenetic study to include a substantial sample of orchids was published in 1999. [12]
Learn about 10 orchid flower colors, including blue, red, brown, and black, the types of orchids that produce them, and what they mean.
Peristeria is a genus of plants of the family Orchidaceae [2] commonly called dove orchid or Holy Ghost orchid. In line with the common name, the genus' name is from the Greek word peristerion meaning "from dove". According to the Royal Horticultural Society, Per is the official orchid abbreviation for
"Several thousand new orchid cultivars are registered by the Royal Horticultural Society each year." Averixus 13:47, 23 November 2024 (UTC) What the RHS registers are grexes. Not cultivars and I don't think there is a list of orchid cultivars. Orchids are generally known by their grex name or trade name.