Thanks Aaron for your input! Should I, then, be calling this plant L. paucifolia, or even L. socialis paucifolia? I just want to make sure that when I trade, or even offer these bulbs, to the PBS, or members, I use the correct name. I just have an issue with the fact that regular L. socialis is vastly different, color-wise, and shape-wise (leaves.) I don't mean to open, or maintain, a can of worms here - just want to educate myself. Best, Jude ______________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you want to receive my plant newsletters via email? santoury@aol.com The Silent Seed - Rare and Unusual Plants ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: aaron floden <aaron_floden@yahoo.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 6:45 pm Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla paucei pics ? = L. socialis This form of Ledebouria socialis is frequently sold/offered under the names luteo-socialis, pauciflora, and under some Scilla names. I have also seen it as Drimiopsis burkei. The correct name is L. pauciFOLIA not -flora. Baker did not specify how it differed from L. socialis described in the same paper. Both were from the "Cape Colony." But, reading through the descriptions the number of leaves and number of flowers per inflorescence differs, slightly. For a name call it L. socialis -- broad leaved form. The variation in this very widespread eastern South African species needs work, but the range in variation is not likely quantitatively significant. Aaron Knoxville, Tennessee, but not from here. --- On Tue, 4/19/11, bulborum botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com> wrote: From: bulborum botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla paucei pics ? To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 4:26 AM Here the picture from Jude from the Ledebouria https://picasaweb.google.com/bulborum/… Roland _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ =