Hi all: As Alberto will be away for few days i will try to give the little information i have in this subject. First: Ipheion or Nothoscordum? As there is no complete revision of none of this genus, and some of the species have also been included in Tristagma recently there is enough confusion about what can be considered Nothoscordum and Ipheion. In both genus there are species with one-flowered inflorescences and geotropical incurved-decumbent scapes which had been the features used to separate both genus. In a broad sense it could be wiser to include all this species in Nothoscordum, but as there is a very big genus (in the last 3 years almost 30 species has been described by Ravenna) and the species are so difficult to identify i prefer to use the old boundaries of Ipheion and Nothoscordum untill a more comprehensive study is performed. Second: Habitat and distribution: Nothoscordum (Ipheion) vittatum. Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina in grasslands, flowering from april to june. Nothoscordum (Ipheion) hirtellum. Uruguay and Argentina in grasslands, flowering from april to june. Both species use to live together. During the summer the bulbs remain dormant. The rainfall is higher during spring and autumn but there is no dry season. Finally about the "rock sown" (coarse sand) i used it for most of my bulbs as the main substrate. Best wishes Germán At 08:28 p.m. 04/06/2003 -0700, you wrote: >Hi, > >For the wiki pages can some of you experts tell us whether the pictures >from Germán should be on the Ipheion page or the Nothoscordum page? We >have some of the other yellow ones on the Nothoscordum page. Is there any >consensus about what is the best name to use. And can Germán or Alberto >tell us any more about the plants pictured. Are they only found in >Argentina and in what habitats? Are they as long blooming as some of the >others? Obviously they are winter growers. But do they have year round >rainfall? > >Thanks for any information and for sharing the pictures which I reduced a >little in size. > >Mary Sue > >_______________________________________________ >pbs mailing list >pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php