Dalton Holland Baptista was born in the city of São Paulo, in 1962 and graduated in Architecture and Urbanism, from Universidade de São Paulo.

He became interested in orchids in 1976 but only started to actively study them after 1980 when became a member of Círculo Paulista de Orquidófilos, where he first met Marcos Campacci. He continued as an ordinary collector until 2001 when more free time allowed him to work on his plans of incentive and knowledge about this family of plants in Brazil.

As a result of planning a small website about the Brazilian orchid species he met Americo Docha Neto. From the website, the plans passed to something more ambitious: an encyclopedia on the Brazilian orchids species.

In addition to working on the colaboration of the Encyclopedia, Baptista frequently publishes articles and photographs in the magazine Brasil Orquídeas and on the Bulletin of the Coordenadoria das Associações Orquidófilas do Brasil, amongst them the description of new species and revisions of already existing genera. He also helped on the revision of the on-line database of Brazilian orchids of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, checking synonyms, species and new occurrences.

Since 2002, he has been a judge of independent orchid shows and of CAOB circuit ones, frequently or occasionally judging the shows at the Jardim Botânico de São Paulo, and shows of the societies of Rio Claro, Santo André, Vinhedo, São Paulo, Jaboticabal, São Bernardo do Campo and Poços de Caldas.

Needing more room to grow his orchids, he has recently moved to Piracicaba where he is a member of Associação Orquidófila Piracicabana.

New Species Described:

Acianthera bohnkiana Campacci & D.H. Baptista
Boletim CAOB 54: 60-63, 2004

Website:

http://www.dalholl.hpg.ig.com.br/index.htm

Works published on magazines:

Boletim CAOB 52: 107-112, 2003
Revista Brasil Orquídeas 06 - As Coelogyne - parte I
Revista Brasil Orquídeas 07 - As Coelogyne - parte II
Revista Brasil Orquídeas 09 - As Dracula

Photos published on magazines:

Boletim CAOB 50, 51, 52, 53: from 2003 to date
Revista Como Cultivar Orquídeas 06
Revista Brasil Orquídeas from ed. 06 to date

Interview:

Revista Como Cultivar Orquídeas Ed. 06

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OTHER AUTHORS:

Americo Docha Neto