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Originally Posted by palito  re: changes. I noticed that in the RHS website, the change of names has been adopted - at least in their database and the hybrids have been updated to reflect the changes as well. I also noticed that Kew has it now as an accepted name and the others are synonyms. |
Oh god.....what a @#!&%?! mess this is going to be...
You're right, it must be a very recent thing....this is going to be a nightmare. I am usually singing the praises of the RHS about how careful they are in waiting to see if species name changes are accepted before changing registered hybrids but this is a disaster in the making; very shortsighted and unnecessary.
I hope they're not thinking to themselves "Oh gee, now that everything is in a database, it's easy to keep up with the changes." If they are then all of our hybrid names will change as fast as and be as muddled as the species name changes. And will the RHS change back in 6 months when the next revision by someone else is published? It's a very ill-considered move that will create a great deal of confusion for orchid growers.
I feel like putting my foot down and refusing to accept it.