colchicum byzantinum & friends
David Nicholson (Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:41:55 PDT)

Jane McGary wrote

" It has been mentioned that the name Colchicum parnassicum is misapplied
in cultivation to
C. laetum hort. However, the Archibalds offer seed of a documented
collection of C. parnassicum, which I am growing though it is not mature
enough to flower yet, so in spite of being misapplied in gardens it is
apparently a valid name -- at least at some point in
the unsatisfactory nomenclature of this genus........"

Reference to the Kew Monocot Check List, see
http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/…

shows Colchicum parnassicum to be an accepted name with an Homotypic synonym
of C. lingulatum var. parnassicum, and a Heterotypic synonym of C.
neopolitanum. C. laetum is also accepted with the Homotypic synonym of C.
byzantinum var. laetum.

David Nicholson
in Devon UK Zone 9b