Hi Everyone, I'm working on the phylogeny (family tree based on DNA) and evolution of the genus Geissorhiza in the iris family for my PhD thesis - you might have seen one of my articles in the newsletter a few years back. We will be embedding the Geissorhiza phylogeny in a larger phylogeny including representatives from each of the genera in the Iridaceae subfamily Crocoideae which includes Crocus and Gladiolus. I've been successful at acquiring leaf tissue or DNA from all of these genera except Cyanixia and Anomatheca. At this point I've queried the Missouri, Chicago, and the UC Botanical Gardens and Kew DNA bank in London but they are not available. I thought I'd send out one last ask to see if anyone happens to have any species of Cyanixia or Anomatheca in your collection that you'd be willing to share (a leaf or two). I'd need pure species, not hybrids. If anyone has them please respond to this email or email me directly at eeifler@wisc.edu. Thank you very much! Evan ps. sorry I've been slow to update the Geissorhiza page on the website, but I hope to get to that this summer! _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…