Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:39:48 From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1120$foo@default> Subject: Re: fertile Drosera hybrids
Dear Jay,
> And on a semi-related note, spent the day with an experienced
> grower/collector last weekend who used terms I had
> not been previously familiar with. He called the above D. fili
> hybrid D. x californica, as opposed to the one more familiar
> to me (D. x "California Sunset"). Is there a preference?
One is a taxon name, the other is a cultivar name. Both are suitable
but I prefer the bastard formula.
> He also referred to the Southern variety of D. filiformis as
> D. Tracyi (conferring on it I assume, separate species, as
> opposed to sub-species status). Has there been any
> literature to support this assertion? Jan?
I do not know any. The epithet has never been formally established
at specific rank (only a ms. name cited in synonymy by Diels when he
described the taxon as a variety). "tracyi" does not exist at
subspecific rank (only as species, var., or f.) in _Drosera_. _D.
filiformis var. tracyi_ formally belongs to _D.filiformis subsp.
filiformis_.
Kind regards
Jan
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