Rhodophiala pictures
Matthew Gale (Tue, 01 Apr 2003 06:53:52 PST)

Thanks for this, Pascal! I have to admit that I was ready to believe that H.
brachyandrus had been re-classified; but then I guess I am still quite
inexperienced when it comes to identifying these plants.

While I know some of the characteristics which differentiate Habranthus from
Zephyranthes, I don't really know how to differentiate Habranthus from
Rhodophiala. I know that their ranges overlap and, at least at a glance,
some of them are very similar.

I've just been re-reading Alan Meerow et al. The New Phylogeny of the
Amaryllidaceae in Herbertia 54 (1999) because I wanted to check how their
results affect the question of Rhodophiala genetics. I was really interested
to see that Rhodophiala isn't monophyletic and that R. bagnoldii and bifida
are in a separate grouping from the rest of the genus. I've been told that
Rhodophiala possess a chromosome count that's quite different from other
rainlilies, but I'm curious about whether the two different groups of
Rhodophiala in Alan's article possess the same number of chromosomes?

Cheers,
Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pascal Vigneron" <v_pascal@club-internet.fr>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Rhodophiala pictures

misidentified.

Habranthus)

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