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.
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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 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!)

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


Orchid articles finished

  1. Approved Article Orchid
  1. Developed Article Heterotaxis
  1. Leptotes
  1. Developed Article Loefgrenianthus
  1. Developed Article Scuticaria

Sketches in Portuguese