hi john, a follow up on your page. first, there's an old misunderstanding about S. leucotricha being a synonym of S. canescens. unfort., many years ago, someone misidentified plants of leucotricha based on erroneous examination of herbarium material of canescens. the dried up specimen looked very similar and this scientist assumed they were the same. because canescens was the older name, it took precedence and leucotricha was subsumed as a junior synonym. later, it's been discovered that they were not the same, and canescens is a much rarer plant in cultivation. while young, it produces the same silvery furry leaves but as it grows older, canescens is much greener. the flowers are also different but i can't recall exactly how. incidentally, there's another silver furred leafed Sinningia, S. globulosa, sometimes still labeled as 'lanata,' its old provisional name. this confusion is prevalent, and i've seen many nurseries in europe offering leucotricha as canescens. at the recent philly flower show, there were also a few leucotrichas shown as canescens. to add to the confusion, there are hybrid plants being grown as leucotricha. i saw a plant at the CT C&S show a few years back as leucotricha but it was clearly a hybrid with other Sinningia species. this confusion is similar to the one between macropoda and lineata. while the two species are not particularly similar-looking, many plants of lineata were introduced as macropoda in the past. as for the plant labeled S. stricta, as i said before, stricta is a junior synonym of elatior. however, alain chautems has identified the plant in that pic as warmingii. below is the message from the gesneriphiles list. the plate he refers to is a painting of "Gesneria stricta," i.e. elatior, whereas the pic is the one in the IBS site (labeled as stricta, but really should be warmingii). tsuh yang ==================================================== Hi folks, Just picked the message from the Archives. I have been off the list for the last 6 weeks. Had a very good trip in Brazil, little time spent in the field, but very fruitfull contacts with several students involved in Gesneriaceae studies there. About the original plate, is is Sinningia elatior, without any doubt. The picture from Argentina is clearly Sinningia warmingii. I have seen several herbarium collections from Paraguay and Corrientes where as the author of the picture commented S. tubiflora and S. warmingii are in the same area! Ron Myhr's eyes spotted one of the difference between the 2 species: corolla tube is dorsally curved in S. elatior and straight in S. warmingii. All the best, Alain Dr. Alain Chautems Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève C.P. 60 CH-1292 Chambésy/GE Switzerland http://ville-ge.ch/cjb/recherche/… --- Floral Artistry/John Ingram <floralartistry2000@yahoo.com> wrote: > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/… > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html