I stand corrected. All five sepals of my P. cyclosecta (?) are bluntly
pointed (obtuse) and are neither truncate nor emarginate. I understand
reticulate (as in P. reticulata) means "netted" - does this refer to the
netted vein pattern in the petals?
>> Things may be even more complicated ... Gordon Snelling tells me his
>> P. kondoi (which definitely has some unique differences from my
>> P. cyclosecta (?))
> What are these differences?
I don't have P. kondoi anymore, but from what I remember the crown of
P. kondoi is constantly pink whereas the crown of P. cyclosecta is
constantly green. Barry got a flower not too long ago from a division
of the P. kondoi plant I had. He probably has a photo (or a dozen) of it.
Maybe the pedicel was glandular (as in the photo in Kondo's book) on
his plant.
-- Don Burden New Albany, Indiana, USA donb@iglou.com