Editing Phragmipedium kovachii (section)

=== Controversy ===
Michael Kovach, an American orchid collector<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://huntingtonblogs.org/2013/01/orchid-collection-an-extraordinary-orchid-blooms-at-the-huntington/|title=ORCHID COLLECTION {{!}} An Extraordinary Orchid Blooms at The Huntington|date=2013-01-17|work=VERSO {{!}} The Huntington's Blog|access-date=2017-10-08|language=en-US}}</ref> who bought the live [[Type (biology)|type specimen]] of ''P.&nbsp;kovachii'' from a roadside vendor in Peru, had smuggled the plant into the US and taken it to the Selby Botanical Gardens.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Borrell|first=Brendan|date=2007-03-15|title=Linnaeus at 300: The big name hunters|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=446|issue=7133|pages=253–255|doi=10.1038/446253a|pmid=17361154|bibcode=2007Natur.446..253B |issn=0028-0836|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":4" /> According to a report in the journal [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']], Selby Botanical Gardens knew that Eric Christenson would publish the same species in a forthcoming issue of the journal ''[[American Orchid Society|Orchids]]'', so they rushed to publish their description in a supplement of the Selby Gardens' journal, ''[[Selbyana]]''.<ref name=":1" />

Orchids in genus ''Phragmipedium'' are protected under the [[CITES]] treaty, so any trade or possession that doesn't comply with CITES standards is deemed illegal.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2004/June/04_enrd_397.htm|title=#397: 06-10-04 VIRGINIA ORCHID DEALER PLEADS GUILTY TO VIOLATING THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT|website=www.justice.gov|language=en|access-date=2017-05-08}}</ref> An investigation led by the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service|U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]] and assisted by the [[United States Department of Agriculture|U.S. Department of Agriculture]], [[United States Customs Service|U.S. Customs Service]] and the then [[CITES]] authority in Peru (INRENA) among others, brought Kovach to trial.<ref name=":2" /> Kovach was sentenced to 2 years probation and a fine of $1000.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.theledger.com/news/20041103/man-sentenced-for-bringing-plant-to-us?start=2|title=Man Sentenced for Bringing Plant to U.S.|agency=Associated Press|work=The Ledger|access-date=2017-05-08|language=en}}</ref> While Selby Botanic Gardens saw its CITES permit revoked, was sentenced to a fine of $5000, and staff member Wesley Higgins received a 6-month restriction order.<ref name=":4">{{Cite journal|last=Cribb|first=Phillip|date=2005|title=511. Phragmipedium Kovachii|journal=Curtis's Botanical Magazine|language=en|volume=22|issue=1|pages=8–11|doi=10.1111/j.1355-4905.2005.00454.x|issn=1467-8748}}</ref>

A nomenclatural proposal was put forward in 2006 to declare the name ''Phragmipedium kovachii'' invalid and to add its original ''ad hoc'' publication "Selbyana vol. 23 Supplement" to the “[[opera utique oppressa]]” ([[International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants|ICN]] Appendix VI).<ref>{{cite journal|title=Proposal to add Selbyana vol. 23 Supplement to the "opera utique oppressa"|url=http://docserver.ingentaconnect.com/deliver/connect/iapt/00400262/v55n4/s41.pdf?expires=1196951286&id=41116003&titleid=6069&accname=Guest+User&checksum=8A118947CAFA7EBBB93C980B44A64F12|journal=Taxon|volume=55|issue=4|pages=1053|doi=10.2307/25065718|author=Van Rijckevorsel, Paul|jstor=25065718|year=2006}}</ref> Counterarguments were presented in several articles.<ref name="NC">{{cite journal|year=2009|title=Report of the Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants: 60|journal=Taxon|volume=58|issue=1|pages=280–292|last=Brummitt |first=R.K.|doi=10.1002/tax.581028}}</ref> The Nomenclature Committee for Vascular Plants declined to accept the proposal, stating "if all names based on specimens illegally collected or named after persons who have acted unwisely ... were to be rejected, we might have some major nomenclatural instability."<ref name="NC" />