I haven't seen a topographic map of the region in question, but if you don't think "basin" describes the actual landform, then "watershed' would be a more conventional term than "drainage".
Bob
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 06:29:33 PM EDT, Jane McGary via pbs <pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:
Lee,
Thanks, I was leaning toward "unconfirmed" as a neutral word. But I
probably will use "unresolved" if that's what Kew prefers. "Ratified"
sounds more like a decision made by an authoritative body. What Lara et
al. mean is that the garden specimens, which seem to have been collected
somewhere in nature, haven't been refound (yet).
I didn't like "basin" for "cuenca" because of the mountainous nature of
the places described, but "drainage" is good. How about "side drainage"
for subcuenca?
There is a lot of new material on H. leopoldii, which actually was
refound, so the last job I have on the revision is translating that.
Lara has added a new third author, his assistant Margoth Atahuachi
Burgos, who has been most helpful in setting up the revised Spanish text
so we could work on it efficiently.
Jane McGary, Portland, Oregon, USA
On 7/15/2020 1:34 PM, Lee Poulsen via pbs wrote:
> To me it sounds like he means “unconfirmed”. The Plant List’s “Unresolved” seems the closest to that. They’re not discredited. And I think “questionable” and “doubtful species” seem too strong for what is being described.
>
> Bob’s right; I’ve seen the term “cuenca” used for things like a drainage basin or watershed such as the Mississippi watershed, or ocean basin such as the North Atlantic hurricane basin.
>
> --Lee Poulsen
> Pasadena, California, USA - USDA Zone 10a
> Latitude 34°N, Altitude 1150 ft/350 m
>
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