× ''Colmanara'', abbreviated ''Colm.'' in the horticultural trade, is the

nothogenus In botanical nomenclature, a hybrid may be given a hybrid name, which is a special kind of botanical name, but there is no requirement that a hybrid name should be created for plants that are believed to be of hybrid origin. The ''International Co ...

comprising

intergeneric hybrid In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction. Generally, it means that each cell has genetic material from two dif ...

s between the

orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Eart ...

genera ''

Miltonia ''Miltonia'', abbreviated Milt. in the horticultural trade, is an orchid genus comprising twelve epiphyte species and eight natural hybrids. The miltonias are exclusively inhabitants of Brazil, except for one species whose range extends from Braz ...

'', ''

Odontoglossum ''Odontoglossum'', first named in 1816 by Karl Sigismund Kunth, is a formerly accepted genus of orchids that is now regarded as a synonym of '' Oncidium''. Several hundred species have previously been placed in ''Odontoglossum''. The scientific ...

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Oncidium ''Oncidium'', abbreviated as Onc. in the horticultural trade, is a genus that, , contains about 340 species of orchids from the subtribe Oncidiinae of the orchid family Orchidaceae. It is distributed across tropical and subtropical America from ...

'' (''Milt.'' × ''Odm.'' × ''Onc.''). The name refers to

Jeremiah Colman Jeremiah Colman (1777–1851) was an English miller who founded Colman's Mustard, a business which merged into the conglomerate Reckitt & Colman, and is now owned by Unilever. Life He was born in Norfolk in 1777 to Robert Colman (1749-1807) an ...

(1859–1942), an English collector of orchids, and uses the suffix '' -ara'' used to form nothogenera of orchids. The nothogenus was established in 1936.× Colmanara – The International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=29101-1 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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Orchid nothogenera Oncidiinae Historically recognized angiosperm taxa {{Cymbidieae-stub