User:Dalton Holland Baptista

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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 English Speakers after I upload the articles I will work on. I joined wikipedia last September and have ever since dedicated much of my time to it. I created about two thousand new sketches or articles mostly on Orchids. From these, four have been featured and are completely original I have also uploaded more than a thousand of my own photographs to commons. After these 5 months editing there, I am not happy there and feel I need more serious environment.

I am ready to help whenever Portuguese articles are allowed here. I am also ready to translate any documentation pages to Portuguese.

I see Botany pages are still on its baby steps. I have much to learn before starting editing Citizendium and need to get used to the differences from Wikipedia. Any correction or advice will be much welcome. 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.

To do list

Sooner

• Leptotes: check for approval version on metadata and get the OK.
• Finish Heterotaxis.
• 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.