> (...) I though that when a species has not been
> validated yet, it gets a name like the one used for D. sp. "Mag".
> The name should be the place (or there abouts) where the plants
> were found. If that's not the right way, what is please?
This is definitely not the right way. There is no (i.e. exactly 0,
ZERO) alternative to valid publication, Latin description, and type
specimen deposition (according to ICBN) in the proper naming of
plants. Any alternative or "preliminary" naming (especially if
connected with plant distribution in horticultural collections) will
inevitably lead (and add) to confusion and chaos (want me to send you
a list of approx. 3000 examples?).
>Mark sent me a plant to identify, and definitely traded
>something weird/rare in return. I thought it looked a lot like my
>collinsae, but sufficiently different
How did it differ?
>, so informed him that I
>thought it was new. HELP!!!!. I was dying to distribute it to my
>friends at the time, I am just a printer fascinated by CP. and
> D.sp Magaliesberg sounded good!!!!!.
It sounds terrible.
>What about the others, nothing like what Allen Lowrie is finding
Very good! ;-)
>, but D.sp floating?, an aliciae which has a strange habit
>of floating during the Winter months, esterhuizenae large and small
>forms, which look like a greener form of D.slackii, I doubt whether
>their names have been officially latinized.
aliciae, esterhuizenae, slackii yes, "D.sp floating" (shudder!) no.
>D.cistiflora var eitz,
Ouch!
>Gunter Eitz and I found it in the Clanwilliam district, it's growth
>habit is very different to the common form of cistiflora, and at
>the time looked around for a name to call it, something to identify
>it from the others!!!!, Gunter was the only one standing within
>miles.
Then you should have described it (as "D.cistiflora var. eitzii" or
similar) before you spread it under a (wrong and invalid) fancy name.
But be careful in this complex. Very many forms have been given names
already, and most of them were lumped under _D.cistiflora_ s.lat.
again (only _D.alba_, _D.pauciflora_, and _D.acaulis_ survive as
distinct, and any new addition should at least be as different
from _D.cistiflora_ as _D.alba_).
Kind regards
Jan