Ipheion/Tristagma
aaron floden (Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:20:11 PDT)
The latest name in use for Ipheion uniflorum is also
Tristagma. It seems all the Ipheion are subsumed into
Tristagma.
Aaron Floden
KSC Herbarium, KS
--- Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen@pacbell.net> wrote:
I've seen this name given before. What are the
arguments for placing
'Rolf Fiedler' in the genus Tristagma rather than in
Ipheion? Both
its bulbs, leaves, and flowers are so similar to I.
uniflorum that
it's difficult to distinguish until the flowers
open. I would think
that these two are what I would call sister species.
Otherwise, I
would wonder why I. uniflorum isn't also place in
the genus Tristagma.
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