× Colmanara Explained

× Colmanara, abbreviated Colm. in the horticultural trade,^[1] is the nothogenus comprising intergeneric hybrids between the orchid genera Miltonia, Odontoglossum and Oncidium (Milt. × Odm. × Onc.).

The name refers to Jeremiah Colman (1859–1942), an English collector of orchids,^[2] and uses the suffix -ara used to form nothogenera of orchids. The nothogenus was established in 1936.^[3]

In the current botanical classifications according to Genera Orchidacearum by Alec M. Pridgeon, Phillip J. Cribb, Mark W. Chase, and Finn N. Rasmussen, Odontoglossum is merged into Oncidium and × Colmanara is considered to be the same as the nothogenus × Miltonidium. The RHS Orchid register does not register × Colmanara anymore.

Notes and References

1. http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
2. The Vocabulary of Orchids: An Amateur Perspective, Allen B.Martin, p. 243.

   https://nossaorg.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/martin.pdf

3. × Colmanara – The International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=29101-1