New mystery bulb

Richard xerics@cox.net
Thu, 07 Jul 2005 15:30:28 PDT
My personal feeling is that alleles and genes be chosen so that they reflect 
some morphology. Otherwise, the whole taxonomic kingdom falls into utter 
confusion.

RW
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Bryan" <johnbryan@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 9:14 AM
Subject: Re: [pbs] New mystery bulb


> Dear Fred:
>
> For what it is worth, my opinion is that molecular differences should
> NOT trump floral form. Looking down the road, I can see problems if
> molecular differences rule. Such information is valuable, no doubt about
> it, but I feel such should be in a separate classification, or table or
> whatever, not mixed in with, and take the place of floral form. If such
> continues I can see difficulty in the identification of plants in the
> field. A new, separate classification is required, such to be used by
> those who can use and have need of it, but not for, or as the rule, for
> practical identification. Perhaps someone could make a name for
> him/herself by tackling this, you perhaps? Cheers, John e. Bryan
>
> boutin wrote:
>>
>> For further comments on Manning and Goldblatt's lumping together of 
>> genera
>> and species based on molecular evidence I suggest referring back to 
>> Harold
>> Koopowitz's comments in January of this year: [pbs] Scilla and taxonomic
>> changes.
>>
>> Personally I feel that it is good to know that Drimiopsis is very close 
>> to
>> Ledebouria based on molecular evidence, but should Drimiopsis be merged 
>> into
>> Ledebouria, ignoring what seem to be visually very different flower 
>> forms.
>> Should molecular evidence trump floral form?
>>
>> Fred
>> >
>> >
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