Help with a name
Mary Sue Ittner (Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:57:00 PDT)

Hi,

As some of you may have noticed if you study the
wiki, Alessandro Marinello grows many unusual
plants that not many of the rest of us grow. He
is always adding photos of plants I don't know anything about.

He has photos to add to the wiki and is asking what name to use.

Kew lists the accepted name as

Pyrolirion albicans Herb., Amaryllidaceae: 184 (1837)

Mobot's Tropicos lists two different accepted names:
Cooperia albicans (Herb.) Sprague
Macbride, J. F. 1936. Amaryllidaceae, Flora of
Peru. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 13(1/3): 631–690.

Zephyranthes albicans (Herb.) Baker
Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi 1993. Catalogue of
the Flowering Plants and Gymnosperms of Peru.
Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45: i–xl, 1–1286.

Can anyone help us figure out what to call this
plant? I see Pascal has added it under
Pyrolirion on his wonderful Amaryllidaceae site.
We will add a synonym to the other wiki page
although I don't think we have a page for
Cooperia as when we started we understood that
name wasn't the accepted name at the time. Any
information about this plant that we could add as
text would be greatly appreciated too.

Thanks.

Mary Sue