My personal feeling is that alleles and genes be chosen so that they reflect some morphology. Otherwise, the whole taxonomic kingdom falls into utter confusion. RW ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Bryan" <johnbryan@worldnet.att.net> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 9:14 AM Subject: Re: [pbs] New mystery bulb > Dear Fred: > > For what it is worth, my opinion is that molecular differences should > NOT trump floral form. Looking down the road, I can see problems if > molecular differences rule. Such information is valuable, no doubt about > it, but I feel such should be in a separate classification, or table or > whatever, not mixed in with, and take the place of floral form. If such > continues I can see difficulty in the identification of plants in the > field. A new, separate classification is required, such to be used by > those who can use and have need of it, but not for, or as the rule, for > practical identification. Perhaps someone could make a name for > him/herself by tackling this, you perhaps? Cheers, John e. Bryan > > boutin wrote: >> >> For further comments on Manning and Goldblatt's lumping together of >> genera >> and species based on molecular evidence I suggest referring back to >> Harold >> Koopowitz's comments in January of this year: [pbs] Scilla and taxonomic >> changes. >> >> Personally I feel that it is good to know that Drimiopsis is very close >> to >> Ledebouria based on molecular evidence, but should Drimiopsis be merged >> into >> Ledebouria, ignoring what seem to be visually very different flower >> forms. >> Should molecular evidence trump floral form? >> >> Fred >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pbs mailing list >> > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php