Cannaceae of the World
James Waddick (Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:59:43 PST)

Dear Mark and all,
The Maas's have been working on this for a while. They have
published smaller articles in various Floras, but this is years of
work compiled very neatly.

As a semi-student of the Family/genus I see a few gaps or
topics they just did not mention. The most recent other monograph by
N. Tanaka (2001) came up with 19 species. Disregarding the taxonomic
conclusions, the biological discussions are very worth while.
And if you are really interested in the cultivars and their
origins, you should read the 7 articles by I. Mukherjee &T. Khoshoo
"Genetic Evolutionary Studies in Cultivated Cannas". They are
scattered around in various journals, and not referenced in Maas'
paper.

This is a fascinating genus that well deserves this new paper.

Best Jim W.

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