My Chilean plant guides still use Phycella, not Eustephia, and give
Phycella bicolor and Phycella ignea as separate species. Other than the
color of the tepals, the descriptions are not much different, except
that P. bicolor is said to have up to 9 flowers in the umbel, and P.
ignea up to 6. P. ignea's common name is A~na~nuca de fuego, much like
the Latin name, but P. bicolor is called Azucena del diablo ('of the
devil'). It's understandable that these might not be treated as fully
separate species by some authorities.
How reliable is Plants of the World?
Jane McGary
On 10/30/2018 12:14 PM, Mary Sue Ittner wrote:
> I was going to add some of the recent information provided on the list
> to the Phycella wiki page, but have a question about the names.
> According to Plants of the World online, Phycella bicolor (Ruiz &
> Pav.) Herb. is a synonym of Eustephia coccinea Cav. The references are
> IPNI and the World checklist of plants. On the wiki Phycella bicolor
> is listed as a synonym for Phycella ignea. Diana is saying they are
> different species.
>
> Plants of the World online is listing Phycella ignea (Lindl.) Lindl.
> as a synonym of Phycella cyrtanthoides (Sims) Lindl. Does anyone have
> up to date information about what names we should be using on the wiki?
>
> Mary Sue
>
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