I should add that the first plant is a pot, the second is an intergenetic oncidium.

They all look like Oncidiums or Oncidium Intergenerics. The new growths before they make a pseudobulb are sometimes called leads.

Pot. is short for Potinara which is an Intergeneric type of "Cattleya". Named after a guy or gal called Potin and ara added to the end so you know it is named after a person.
Now obsolete because guys called Taxonomists decided that Sophonitis are all Cattleyas.

Thanks, Arthurm! So these leads will eventually form pseudobulbs? It makes sense that they have more leaves, at first. I would think they would need them to collect more nutrients for storage in the eventual pseudobulb. Apologies, as I did misidentify the one orchid. It is my Miltassia 'Charles M. Fitch'. The pot tag was intertwined with the Milt tag (and I have been looking for a lost tag). The other is Bratonia Shelob 'Tolkien'.

Perhaps you are confused about the use of quotes?
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch was registered in 1961 by C M Fitch and the parents are Brassia verrucosa and Miltonia spectabilis. Every time this crossing is made the name applies and the thousands and thousands of seedlings produced will be all different.

Charles M. Fitch is the grex name and the bit in quotes might apply to plants with superior blooms.
Examples:
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Orchidglade'
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Carmela'
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Aranbeem'
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'No.1'
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'No.2'
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Aurora'
Miltassia Charles M. Fitch 'Aurora2'

The first three clone names (and many others) are informally reserved. So If you purchase a plant with the added bit in quotes that is part of the name and should not be altered.

It came labeled as such, so it was not my error. It says:
Mlt. 'Charles M. Fitch - Izumi'

Should I change it to
Bratonia (since they changed that, as well...sheesh!) Charles M. Fitch 'Izumi'?

This post was edited by AuroraWA on Fri, Jan 16, 15 at 19:17

Yes, change it to Bratonia Charles M. Fitch 'Izumi'. The University of google suggests that it was awarded AM/AOS and that is an indication of quality.

For now I'm not going to change the names on benching results. If someone benches their plant as a Miltassia, I'll accept that.

It is a pain. I maintain the Local Orchid Society's Photo pages on Flickr and hundreds of the photos there are wrongly labeled, I keep putting off the task of going through and fixing them all.

Yes, Aurora, those are your new growths. Hopefully, your next round of flowers. They form their bulbs as they mature.

Arthur, I don't know how you can handle all the name changes. I can't imagine the amount of work handling all the changes. Yikes, the paperwork must be enormous as is the research.

I couldn't do it. I give you a blue ribbon!!

Jane

Hi Jane, most of the work is not involved in keeping up with name changes, it is trying to decipher the rubbish written on benching cards or on show entry forms.
To most growers this name stuff is rocket science which is annoying because getting the names correct is part of the hobby.
I notice that some of the new genera names are starting to appear on nursery lists.
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