[pbs] Ipheion/Tristagma
aaron floden
aaron_floden at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 13 16:20:11 EDT 2007
The latest name in use for Ipheion uniflorum is also
Tristagma. It seems all the Ipheion are subsumed into
Tristagma.
Aaron Floden
KSC Herbarium, KS
--- Lee Poulsen <wpoulsen at pacbell.net> wrote:
> I've seen this name given before. What are the
> arguments for placing
> 'Rolf Fiedler' in the genus Tristagma rather than in
> Ipheion? Both
> its bulbs, leaves, and flowers are so similar to I.
> uniflorum that
> it's difficult to distinguish until the flowers
> open. I would think
> that these two are what I would call sister species.
> Otherwise, I
> would wonder why I. uniflorum isn't also place in
> the genus Tristagma.
>
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