{"id":9353,"date":"2011-10-23T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=9353"},"modified":"2011-12-07T21:46:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T05:46:20","slug":"genus-abbreviations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/genus-abbreviations\/","title":{"rendered":"Genus Abbreviations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid name tags often use standard genus abbreviations. The genus name is the first word of a plant&#8217;s name, such as &#8220;Vanda&#8221; in the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Vanda_coerulea_640px.jpg\">Vanda coerulea<\/a>, or &#8220;Phalaenopsis&#8221; in the name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Phalaenopsis_New_Stripes_640px.jpg\">Phalaenopsis New Stripes<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a list of abbreviations for some of the most common orchid varieties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C. or Catt. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Cattleya<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cym. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cymbidium.html\">Cymbidium<\/a><\/li>\n<li>D. or Den. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/dendrobium.html\">Dendrobium<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Epi. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/epidendrum.html\">Epidendrum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>L. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/cattleya.html\">Laelia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lds. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/19\/jewel-orchid\/\">Ludisia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Masd. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/masdevallia.html\">Masdevallia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Milt. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/miltonia.html\">Miltonia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mltnps. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/miltonia.html\">Miltoniopsis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Neof. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/samurai-orchid\/\">Neofinetia<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Odm. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/odontoglossum.html\">Odontoglossum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Onc. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/oncidium.html\">Oncidium<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Paph. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/paphiopedilum.html\">Paphiopedilum<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Phal. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/phalaenopsis.html\">Phalaenopsis<\/a><\/li>\n<li>V. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/identify\/orchids\/vanda.html\">Vanda<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Vl. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/04\/vanilla-valentine\/\">Vanilla<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Z. or Zygo. = <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/zygopetalum\/\">Zygopetalum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/12\/orchid-names\/\">species<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/28\/hybrid-names\/\">hybrid<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/cultivar-names\/\">cultivar names<\/a>, which follow formal rules, these abbreviations are informal. Most orchid experts agree on a standard set, but differences abound. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/mauiorchids.com\/orchid-abbreviations\" target=\"_blank\">find another short abbreviation list here<\/a>. For <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rv-orchidworks.com\/orchidtalk\/view-orchid_genus.html\" target=\"_blank\">a much more comprehensive list of abbreviations, OrchidTalk Forum has an alphabetical index<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orchid name tags often use standard genus abbreviations. The genus name is the first word of a plant&#8217;s name, such as &#8220;Vanda&#8221; in the name Vanda coerulea, or &#8220;Phalaenopsis&#8221; in the name Phalaenopsis New Stripes. Here&#8217;s a list of abbreviations for some of the most common orchid varieties: C. or Catt. = Cattleya Cym. = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orchid-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9353"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10125,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9353\/revisions\/10125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}