News in Cypella
German Roitman (Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:26:21 PST)

Hi All:

Alberto Castillo and i have published a paper about some novelties in the
genus Cypella, and we would like to share the results with you.

A new subspecies of Cypella osteniana, C. o. aurantiaca that live in
grasslands in Brazil, west of Uruguay and north-east of Argentina is here
described for the first time. This subspecies can be easily distinguished
from C. osteniana subsp. osteniana because of the orange color of the
flower, and the convergent stigma lobes in aurantiaca and the whitish
flowers with divergent stigma lobes in osteniana.

Also Cypella laxa has been cited for Argentina, it was formerly described
for Brazil and Paraguay and Cypella laeta is cited for Uruguay, only cited
in Argentina until now.

You can see the pictures and info in:
http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/…

Published in Bol. Soc. Argent. Bot. 38: 33-339. 2004.

If someone is interested, although the paper is in Spanish, i can send you
the .pdf file.

Best wishes

Germán

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Ing. Agr. MSc. Germán Roitman
mailto:roitman@mail.agro.uba.ar
Cátedra de Jardinería
Coordinador de la Carrera Técnica de Jardinería
Facultad de Agronomia.
Universidad de Buenos Aires
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