Is it possible to have a copy of this article? Kind regards, mark > Message du 14/06/11 05:12 > De : "Mary Sue Ittner" > A : pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > Copie à : > Objet : [pbs] Another proposed name change > > A number of years ago Julian Slade shared with us > a proposal to split Scilla up. Many years later > some of the changes have been accepted, but not > all of them. This kind of thing makes keeping the > wiki up to date very challenging. Then we had the > proposal to combine a lot of genera into > Ornithogalum (Albuca, Dipcadi, Galtonia, > Neopatersonia, and Pseudogaltonia). That wasn't > all accepted either. A new paper resurrected > Albuca, Dipcadi, and Pseudogaltonia, but not > Galtonia and Neopatersonia and took some of the > former Ornithogalum species and moved them to Albuca. > > Now Pam Slate has shared a new paper from > the Annals of Botany 107: 137, 2011 available > online at http://www.aob.oxfordjournals.org/ > Molecular phylogenetics of subfamily > Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on nuclear > and plastid DNA regions, including a new > taxonomic arrangement by Mario Martínez Azorín, > Manuel B. Crespo, Ana Juan and Michael F. Fay > > This paper concludes: "On the basis of the > phylogenetic analyses, 19 monophyletic genera are accepted within > Ornithogaloideae: Albuca, Avonsera, Battandiera, > Cathissa, Coilonox, Dipcadi, Eliokarmos, Elsiea, Ethesia, > Galtonia, Honorius, Loncomelos, Melomphis, > Neopatersonia, Nicipe, Ornithogalum, Pseudogaltonia, > Stellarioides and Trimelopter. Each of these has > a particular syndrome of morphological characters. As a > result, 105 new combinations are made and two new > names are proposed to accommodate the taxa studied in > the new arrangement." > > Morphological characters are certainly easier for > most of us, but it seems like some kind of middle > ground between the lumpers and the splitters > would be nice. All this constant changing of > botanical names makes it harder to convince > people that they should use them. It used to be > that you could argue that using botanical names > assured that you were all taking about the same > thing. Now the common names last longer in many cases. > > Mary Sue > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >