| Well Kevin I agree with the response that using the name "var" implies a scientific name, but if someone chooses to give a plant a hort (fictitious) name there is nothing preventing them from making it appear "scientific". Heck, it happens constantly. They deliberately do it as a marketing (or marketing confusion) device or, alternately, they are badly misinformed. In addition, the original post did not indicate the use of "var". That was my addition to indicate that I was looking for a scientific name and a real variety rather than a hype name. That's also why I indicated looking for a documented clonal name, 'Delicatum'. Obviously I can not locate a false name unless I got lucky enough to find the guy who did it advertising the plant and I wasn't looking into that long shot possibility.
You might find 'Delicatum' in a non AOS awards system. I did not look. You might find "var delicatum" in some taxonomy system, but it is not recognized by the orchid registrar at this time nor in the past. That does not mean it is not on the World Monocot Checklist. However, I find it beyond reasonable that some orchid guy named a plant via the Moncot list when they can't even manage to get the RHS accepted names labeled correctly.  |