Scilla paucei pics ? = L. socialis
The Silent Seed (Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:50:18 PDT)

Thanks Aaron for your input! Should I, then, be calling this plant L. paucifolia, or even L. socialis paucifolia? I just want to make sure that when I trade, or even offer these bulbs, to the PBS, or members, I use the correct name. I just have an issue with the fact that regular L. socialis is vastly different, color-wise, and shape-wise (leaves.) I don't mean to open, or maintain, a can of worms here - just want to educate myself.
Best, Jude

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-----Original Message-----
From: aaron floden <aaron_floden@yahoo.com>
To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 6:45 pm
Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla paucei pics ? = L. socialis

This form of Ledebouria socialis is frequently sold/offered under the names

luteo-socialis, pauciflora, and under some Scilla names. I have also seen it as

Drimiopsis burkei. The correct name is L. pauciFOLIA not -flora. Baker did not

specify how it differed from L. socialis described in the same paper. Both were

from the "Cape Colony." But, reading through the descriptions the number of

leaves and number of flowers per inflorescence differs, slightly. For a name

call it L. socialis -- broad leaved form. The variation in this very widespread

eastern South African species needs work, but the range in variation is not

likely quantitatively significant.

Aaron

Knoxville, Tennessee, but not from here.

--- On Tue, 4/19/11, bulborum botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com> wrote:

From: bulborum botanicum <bulborum@gmail.com>

Subject: Re: [pbs] Scilla paucei pics ?

To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>

Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 4:26 AM

Here the picture from Jude

from the Ledebouria

https://picasaweb.google.com/bulborum/…

Roland

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