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, which I started to grow in 76, 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 a native English speaker. Feel free to do it and erase it from the list, Thanks!)

• Scuticaria
• Heterotaxis
• Loefgrenianthus
• Miltonia
• Phymatochilum

To do list

Sooner

• Leptotes: check for approval version on metadata and get the OK.
• Write Epidendroideae.

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.
• Try some species info photo tables.
• 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

Loefgrenianthus  Miltonia

Phymatochilum  Scuticaria

Sketches in Portuguese

Loefgrenianthus

Miltonia