{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 arial;}{\f2\froman\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}} {\colortbl ;\red255\green0\blue0;\red0\green0\blue0;} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1515;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 IOSPE \par 1996 formation with about 200 species as Jay's Key West Orchid Photo Page\par People started sending in their photos and viola IOSPE is born about 1998\par Lumper with a lot of help from many former and current taxomonists. \par Dr Leslie Garay, Robert Dressler, Dr Rubin Sauleda, Dr Eric Christenson may he rest in peace, Dr DeVogel, Schuitemann, Vermuellen, Dr Mark Whitten and Dr Mario Blanco to name a few\par Carl Withner, Peter O'Byrne, Eric Hagsater, Padre Ortiz, Patricia Harding, Marv Ragan as accomplished orchid experts \par and hundreds of collectors around the world just like you\par USA about 30%\par \pard\sb100\sa100\cf1\b\f1 France \cf0 76614 \cf2 3.55% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Brazil \cf0 64976 \cf2 3.01% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Germany \cf0 60109 \cf2 2.78% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Canada \cf0 59961 \cf2 2.78% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Netherlands \cf0 55238 \cf2 2.56% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Japan \cf0 54862 \cf2 2.54% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 United Kingdom \cf0 49064 \cf2 2.27% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Sweden \cf0 46856 \cf2 2.17% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Australia \cf0 44292 \cf2 2.05% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Italy \cf0 34094 \cf2 1.58% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Belgium \cf0 32109 \cf2 1.48% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Malaysia \cf0 27383 \cf2 1.26% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Russian Federation \cf0 25788 \cf2 1.19% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Poland \cf0 25580 \cf2 1.18% \cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \cf1\b\f1\fs20 Czech Republic \par \par Oddities\par Afghanistan 15\par San Marino 6\cf0\b0\f2\fs24\par \pard\cf1\b\f1\fs20 Iraq 4\par Palestinian territories 3 users\par Somalia 2 \cf0\b0\f0\par Send jpeg files around 1400 k to orchidspecies.com\par A major advantage to IOSPE is the ability to correct mistakes! Please help out, id's, wrong information on culture locations bloom times,down to mispellings of words in the description. I am out to make it perfect. If you know if the flower is fragrant and it is not listed please let me know. \par That said I will give you my formula for building the Orchidaceae\par I use Dressler mostly in the family tree. I have changed some as Dressler Phylogeny was printed in 1993\par \par \par \par I abide by Kew most of the time but have avoided the Current taxomony based on DNA\par I am waiting for dust to settle\par eye identification\par If one can see that a Sigmatostalix is different from an Oncidium by eye then it is. \par I am almost sure that if they tested a cattleya against an Oncidium that they would probably find that they are the same genus\par I feel that they are not testing enough of the DNA evidence to actually sort them out.\par If all synonyms are present there is no nessesity to be correct and what is that- just commonly accepted information.\par \par \par Veracity levels not - ok - good - fide more references more secure\par \par \par searchability use the google bar\par \par \par Colombia past and present\par Second oldest democracy in the world - Elected government since 1805 - basically based on the US with rights and a supreme court, 4 year elections with a basic 2 party system\par Largest middle class\par Real problems - Drugs, terrorism, poverty but so do we. \par They have Obamacare and have had for almost 20 years - it seems to work - 12% of salary goes to it for 99% coverage. Rich can still use outside system if they want - my family does not. They use the federal system that is reliable and open for testing and there are no death panels\par Ok on to my favorite hideaway when I am in Bogota\par Donoso was built in the early 1800's and was a way station for travelers from Bogota heading north. It was a days horse ride and there was water. A very important commodity in the 1800's. Today it is a bar/restaraunt and paint ball field \par overview\par west to east stream valley with remnant tall primary forest with Dwarf, mossy, twisted bush-like trees with invasive bamboo-laden, dark, humid cloud forest\par Lepanthes clausa\par Lepanthes effusa\par \pard\sb100\sa100 Lep matisii story 3/8" flower\par \f2\fs24 This species grows in ravines and stream beds in cloud forests on thin branches and smaller trunks of large bushes underneath old growth forests on embankments. I have been observing this species for many years at a beautiful area just outside Bogota'. For years I had asked the Colombian Orchidists if they thought that it was different and what it may be. Their answer was always that it was a species that had been described years before but they could never remember what that name was. After showing it to Lisa Thoerle and Father Padre Ortiz in June of 2009 they investigated further and found that it had been illustrated correctly in 1803 but erroneously given the name of Lepanthes costata, another species that has tailed sepals which this one does not. Lisa and Padre Ortiz then wrote up a new description with the name Lepanthes matisii, the name of the Colombian artist that drew it in 1803. This artist worked for Mutis, a Spaniard sent to Colombia in the last years of the 1700's and early 1800's\par \pard\f0\fs20\par the other species\par Lepanthes orion\par Pleurothallopsis sp\par Pleurothallopsis tubulosa\par Pleurothallis macrocardia\par Pleurothallis talpinaria\par Pleurothallis \par Pleurothallis lindenii\par Pleurothallis phalangifera\par \par \par \par \pard\sb100\sa100\f2\fs24 Epidendrum cf arnoldii\par Hagsater states "not seen for years" but occuring in central Colombia in dense, dwarf, mossy, cloud forests at elevations of 2800 to 3300 meters, as a large to giant sized, cold growing terrestrial with elongate, leafy stems enveloped by many nerved, striate, leafbearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent, ligulate-oblong, subacute, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, shortly pedunculate to 2.8" [7 cm] long, paniculate, to 5.2" [13 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescnece with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts sweetly fragrant flowers \par \pard\f0\fs20 Epidendrum magnispathum\par Epidendrum sp\par Epidendrum sp\par Galeandra beyrichii\par Stenorhynchos speciosum\par Spiranthes sp\par Maxillaria ruberrima\par \par Everglades last week Fakahatchee strand\par Epidendrum rigidum flower photo by Danny Lentz\par Epidendrum anceps\par The Ghost Polyrhiza [dendrophylax] lindenii\par \par \par }