I will mention this again since I told jbc this yesterday.
With any multigenerational hybrid that may be a result of 30 to 75 years of breeding, an exact hybrid name is 99.9999992% impossible. A guess would be a million to one longshot!
This is even more difficult in Phalaenopsis and Cattleyas. Why? They have been bred the most over time.
The one chance that would give you the best hope of getting a correct name would be if it was a mericlone that was very popular and widely distributed. You would hope that some body might recognize it.
Otherwise it is hopeless.
Species are completely different. There I think that with a species, you have a 90+% chance of getting it identified. No other plant or genes are involved.
Another big problem is with a seed pod from a cross, you might raise 10,000 seedlings!!! In a cross of a couple of complex hybrids you could produce seedlings where 500 look like this, 300 like this, 200 like this, all the way down to 6 that look like this and 5 that look like this and so on. You could easily end up with dozens of types of seedlings. It all depends upon genetics! You see how pinning an exact plant is made EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA impossible when it could look like 20 or 30 different things. How can you pin a correct name on it????
Cattleya intermedia is a species!! Genus is always capitalized, species is always lower case. That is the unbreakable rule.
In hybrids, Cattleya Bob Betts. Genus is capitalized, hybrid or grex name is also capitalized!!! That too should be an unbroken rule!
