Hi Dylan: So what is Pucara leucantha? Stenomesson leucanthum? Diana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hannon" <othonna@gmail.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] Pucara > Your photo depicts Stenomesson chloranthum. It was described a few years > ago > by Alan Meerow and Henk van der Werff (as a Stenomesson) and was only > placed > in Pucara provisionally. Pucara differs from Stenomesson by its pollen in > tetrads as I recall. It is formally "lumped" into Stenomesson now as this > is > not enough of a difference to maintain it as a separate genus. No doubt > molecular investigations support this view also. So P. leucantha is now S. > leucanthum. Too bad for us collectors such an evocative name had to go > away. > > Dylan Hannon > Dylan Hannon Rare Bulbs > > > On 4/27/08, Telos Rare Bulbs <telosrarebulbs@suddenlink.net> wrote: >> >> I posted a picture on my blog of a Pucara that I have down as being a new >> species, undescribed as yet. Can anyone tell me anything about Pucara? >> Blog is: http://www.thebulbmaven.typepad.com/. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/