As I have already said in other discussions, gratrixianum is misidentified in cultivation. The plant you show has nothing in common with the herbarium sheet in Vienna. That's why the gratrixianum of cultivation was described as a new species and named christensonianum. True gratrixianum is a...
If you split up liemianum, victoria mariae, v-reginae, moquetteanum and so on, why not the same for other groups? Some of the appletianum group are really easy to recognice - if you get the real plant with the right name.....
Registration is for Hybrids!!!. New species must be described in a journal dediced to botany and a dried plant (= Holotype) must be deposited in an international accepted herbarium.
The process is the same for all types of plants, also for Paphiopedilum and Bulbophyllum. By the way, I am not an...
It IS a News species! If You want, I can describe it for you. But you have to make a herbarium specimen and deposit it in an Indonesian herbarium. It would be illegal to be import it into the EU!