[pbs] Stenomesson/Clinanthus
Mary Sue Ittner
msittner at mcn.org
Wed Jul 8 10:52:48 EDT 2009
Hi,
I generally don't seem to get much response when I ask the kind of
questions I'm going to ask next which is always disappointing since I try
to keep the wiki reasonably accurate and up to date and can't possibly keep
up to date on all the publications and always hope some of the rest of you
can advise me.
Alessandro has added some new pictures of Clinanthus/Stenomesson/Pancratium
depending on which name you want to use to the wiki which has once again
made me wonder where to put them. A number of years ago David Victor very
kindly made a wiki page for Clinanthus, describing the proposed taxonomy
and species. I believe this came from Alan Meerow et. al. in 2000. Since
this is now quite a number of years later, is there some consensus for what
we should call these plants? We still have many of them listed on the
Stenomesson wiki page with this note:
Stenomesson is a genus from South America in the Amaryllidaceae family
found in the Peruvian Andes, Ecuador, Columbia, and Chile. It has been
proposed by Meerow et al. (2000) that some species in this genus should
transfer to the genus Clinanthus
I see that Kew is listing the accepted name as Clinanthus for all of the
species on our wiki Stenomesson page except for Stenomesson pearcei which
is listed under Stenomesson. On the other hand the data base maintained by
the Misssouri Botanical Gardens still lists them as Stenomesson. We have so
many Amaryllidaceae fans in this group. Can you give me guidance about
which wiki page these plants should be displayed on and what most people
have decided to call them.
Hoping for a response.
Mary Sue
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