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["Horak, David" <DavidHorak@bbg.org>]

Actually, regia was described by Willibald Königer (in Selbyana 5: 296 
(1981)) and scobina by Luer in 1980, which is to say that if they are one 
species it would likely become scobina by priority. That would actually be 
kind of sad as I've always enjoyed the image the name "regia" conveys in my 
mind.

Dave

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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:20:45 +0100
From: Minet Laurent <laurentminet@yahoo.fr>
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I have no idea of what the sample size was when Luer dissected and described 
both species (he often based his work on single specimen), but I entirely 
agree that such closely looking "species", with suxh minor difference, being 
almost sympatric, could as well be regarded as one single, slightly variable, 
species! that's why I did cross my 2 plants, I hardly can consider both as 
different species.
Laurent

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