× 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.).

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× Colmanara

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.

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  1. ^ http://www.rhs.org.uk/RHSWebsite/files/87/87be8b1e-908e-4e04-9ee6-30c438354458.pdf[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ The Vocabulary of Orchids: An Amateur Perspective, Allen B.Martin, p. 243. https://nossaorg.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/martin.pdf Archived 2019-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ × Colmanara – The International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=29101-1 Archived 2018-01-05 at the Wayback Machine