Rhodophiala, Sprekelia, Eithea, Habranthus all lumped into Zephyranthes

Erik Van Lennep erik@tepuidesign.com
Sat, 28 Sep 2019 13:26:42 PDT
Here you go....







On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 21:35, Jane McGary <janemcgary@earthlink.net> wrote:

> Thanks to Lee Poulsen for his synopsis of the recent proposed revision
> in American Amaryllidaceae. I'll see if I can access the paper itself
> but probably not. Some of the details Lee listed make intuitive sense to
> me. (Despite the title of the thread, I can't see that Rhodophiala has
> been subsumed under Zephyranthes.) Eremolirion is a rather nice name for
> Rhodophiala laeta ("sand lily"), though its habitat is not as sandy as
> that of several others. As for Myostemma, I'm not relabeling my
> Rhodophiala photos yet but will keep it in mind. Even though I can't
> grow these plants, I love to see them in nature.
>
> Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
>
> On 9/27/2019 7:36 PM, Greg Ruckert wrote:
> > I would be a bit cautious about jumping to conclusions about this one,
> > a friend of mine has already identified errors in the paper. Same
> > person who identified the error in Duncan's Monograph of Lachenalia.
> >
> > All these papers are supposed to be peer reviewed and I think some of
> > the peer reviewers are getting sloppy. Names are not even printed in
> > accordance with the code.
> >
> > Greg Ruckert
> >
> >
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