Pleurothallis dodsonii

Good evening,
Attached are the files and pictures for the Pleurothallis dodsonii which was awarded a CBR at the PNWJC (Vancouver) monthly meeting on July 11, 2009.
Award # 20096185, for identification.

Please let me know if there are any other information needed.

Thank you for your attention.
Abu Salleh
PNWJC (Vancouver)

Pleurothallis dodsonii, award 20096185, has been confirmed by SITF to be Pleurothallis dodsonii. You can now process the award.

Patricia Harding, chair SITF.

Polycycnis lepida

Polychinis lepida, award # 20094707, has been confirmed to be Polycycnis annectans by SITF, with assistance of Rudolf Jenny. You can now process the award.

Its “interesting” to look at some previous Polycycnis in AQ, wonder if any of them are correct.

Patricia Harding

Epidendrum sancti-ramoni

This has been in the drafts folder, waiting for a proposed name, which Patricia has just supplied.

Epidendrum sancti-ramoni , award 20094706, has been confirmed to be Epidendrum sancti-ramoni by SITF, August 2009. You can now process the award.

Patricia Harding

Dendrobium marivelense confirmed to be D. parciflorum

Dendrobium marivelense, award # 20097148, has been confirmed to be D. parciflorum by SITF, August 2009.

The two names are synonyms, so Nenita was correct in her identification. You can now process the award.

Patricia Harding

Bulbophyllum psittacoglossum confirmed to be Bulb. facetum

Bulbophyllum psittacoglossum, award 20097149, has been confirmed to be Bulb. facetum (c.f.), SITF Sept 2009, with assistance from Doris Jensen and Jaap J. Vermeulen.

Just so you know how all this played out----Here are the latter’s comments:
It is interesting that you show me these pictures just now. Yesterday I had a long discussion with Dr. Gunther Fischer from Salzburg about this B. lobbii-related plant native in the Philippines. It is often incorrectly identified as B. coweniorum, which is a species from Laos. He argued that this Philippine form, race, or whatever it is, genetically clusters with B. facetum. Based on a frontal view of the flower, I had my doubts but now that you show me a picture of a lateral view of the flower I can see his point: it has the angular ovary ribs that distinguish B. facetum from other lobbii-alikes. I must check some pickled material before I can decide if this is B. facetum or not, but it is close to it at least.So, after a long story a short id for the plant:B. c.f. facetum."Later he wrote- There is not much more or less correct info on B. lobbii and its supposed relatives. Bulbophyllum c.f. facetum is a scientifically correct name, or as correct as I can come up with here and now. In case you use this id in an award, I could cite this in my revision as a synonym under whatever name I then give the taxon. Formally, that would be a sound procedure, taxonomically linking your award name to the new name. You could then use the new name without further ado, I suppose.

So it will go in as Bulb. facetum (c.f.)CHM and later on as these get sorted out we can segregate it out….if we last that long!

Patricia Harding

Prosthechea trulla

Prosthechea trulla, Award #20093612

Prosthechea trulla, Award #20093612, has been confirmed to Prosthechea trulla by SITF, July 2009.

There is another award to this species under Encyclia lancifolia. Encyclia lancifolia is not really a synonym of E. trulla, but at the time of the award it was felt that lancifolia and trulla were synonyms and that lancifolia had name priority. Since the mid nineties type specimen of lancifolia has been determined to be a E(P.). cochleata, which then made the name trulla have priority for these plants. I suggested that perhaps if you wanted to save the award you could change it to a CBR, as you can give that award twice to the same species to correct taxonomic errors, but Ron McHatton said it would be easier to just correct the Encyclia lancifolia, so I guess that is what will be done and therefore this award will be nullified.

Patricia Harding

Cleisocentron merrillianum

This should look familiar...
No information acompanied the pictures, other than this:
Silverton, July 2009, award 20095874 SITF.

Cleisocentron merrillianum award 20095874 has been confirmed to be Cleisocentron merrillianum by the SITF. There are two previous CHM’s to this award and unless you state something about this clone that is superior or different from the previous awards the award will be nullified.Patricia Harding, chair Species Identification Task Force

Patricia Harding