User:Dalton Holland Baptista

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Ferocactus latispinus is a species from Mexico that blooms very early and reaches forty centimeters in diameter.

(CC) Photo: Dalton Holland Baptista
The column of the flowers of Ornithocephalus myrticola resembles the head of a bird, therefore the name of the genus. Their tiny flowers are just like birds showing off or getting ready to fly.

I am a Brazilian Architect graduated at Universidade de São Paulo, who have been working with garden plants, and mostly orchids, during the last 20 years. I am an authorized taxonomist of American Orchid Society and of Orchid Conservation Coalition. I am one of the reviewers of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - World Checklist of Monocotyledons. I have published a number of articles on Selbyana, Orchids Magazine, and some other journals, but I am more interested in publishing easily available on line free articles, rather than publishing on paper.

I am not a native English speaker therefore my grammar may seems odd sometimes, I will need assistance of native ones after I finish the articles I will work on. I am ready to help whenever Portuguese articles are allowed here. I am also ready to translate any documentation pages to Portuguese.

Template:TOC-right Classical music has been one of my hobbies during the last 30 years so I am able to contribute on articles about this subject too.

Finished articles

(They are here because they need copy editing from an native English speaker. Feel free to do it and erase it from the list, Thanks!)

• Scuticaria
• Heterotaxis

To do list

Sooner

• Leptotes: check for approval version on metadata and get the OK.
• Write Epidendroideae.
• Try some species info photo tables.

Later

• Fill the list of orchid genera split following systematic and not alphabetical order.
• Detail recommendations/discussion on orchid systematics.
• Write main drafts of orchid subfamilies, tribes and subtribes and fix the list of accepted orchid genera.
• Enlarge the list of notable orchidologists.

• Help to organize Botany subgroup page
  • Better layout
  • ideas, and recommendations.
  • Botany article

Anytime

• Start Cactaceae, Agave, Pandanus, Cycads, Bromeliads, Palmaceae.
• Drafts about some other higher plant ranks.

Orchid articles finished

Orchid

Heterotaxis

Leptotes

Scuticaria