I asked my friend Eric Knox, Director of the University of Indiana Herbarium and world authority on Lobelia and its relatives, about this mysterious Siphilantha. He replies: The picture looks like a Centropogon, which is one of the segregate genera closely related to Burmeistera and Siphocampylus; all three derived out of Lobelia. I have never heard of Syphilantha (but I will double check), and I assume that it is a bad approximation of Siphocampylus. Half the Lobeliaceae (650 spp.) are in this C[entropogon]B[urmeistera]S[iphocampylus] [JMG brackets] clade, the radiation presumably based on the coevolution with neotropical hummingbirds. John Grimshaw Dr John M. Grimshaw Garden Manager, Colesbourne Gardens Sycamore Cottage Colesbourne Nr Cheltenham Gloucestershire GL53 9NP SNOWDROP OPEN DAYS AT COLESBOURNE PARK 2006 Every weekend in February, Saturday and Sunday only, from 1 pm 4/5, 11/12,18/19, 25/26 Groups tours by arrangement Website: http://www.colesbournegardens.org.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Kramb" <dkramb@badbear.com> To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 7:11 PM Subject: [pbs] Syphilantha > http://plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/… > > This is a gorgeous plant, so I just placed an order for one. But I can't > turn up any info (not even on Google) for the genus Syphilantha. What is > that? I figure if anyone will know it'll be you PBSers. :-) > > Dennis in Cincy > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >