Re: really rechingeri

Jan Schlauer (zxmsl01@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Wed, 25 Jan 1995 14:23:09 +0100

Tomas,

> please what is the valid name of D. rechingeri???

_D.rechingeri_ STRID. ;-)

>If I understand well, D. coolamon is not a valid name

Correct.

>and the valid name is D. rechingeri that has white flowers.

Correct.

> D. citrina is the valid name (?) for the same plant with yellow flower.
^^^^

Incorrect: it is *NOT AT ALL* the same plant.

_D.rechingeri_ STRID is (as I am convinced) an isolated species, the
closest congener being _D.occidentalis_ (sharing clavate stigmas and rather
undivided stipules but with fewer flowers), not closely realted to the very
numerous splitoffs of _D.leucoblasta_ (with lanceolate to filiform stigmas,
and generally rather large flowers) which have been revived or established
recently by A.Lowrie.

_D.citrina_ is closer to _D.leucoblasta_. It is approximately as closely
(or remotely) related to _D.leucoblasta_ as _D.pycnoblasta_ or
_D.pulchella_. It is distinguished from all these by the characteristic
gemmae (with a warty vertex) in combination with filiform stigmas. The
flowers are sometimes white (this expression has been described as
_D.nivea_ in the meanwhile).

Kind regards
Jan