Actually, the synonym on the webpage I cited is Nelumbo capsica. The
question was about N. nucifera caspicum. However, one webpage uses
Nelumbo caspicum which seems to be an error.
http://www.hortpix.com/pc2848.htm
It is unclear whether it is N. nucifera var. caspicum or N. nucifera
'Caspicum'. It could be both if there is a large population of
red-flowered plants in the Caspian Sea that are considered a botanical
variety.
This webpage uses N. nucifera var. caspica:
http://www.wetlands.org/RDB/Ramsar_D...p/IR005D02.pdf
This webpage uses N. nucifera var. Caspicum:
http://www.tcfb.com/perwatg/lotus.html
This webpage lists "Nelumbo nucifera capsicum" so is that a typo or a
different cultivar?
http://www.botany.com/nelumbo.html
There is also a Nelumbo 'Caspium' listed, which may be a typo or a
different cultivar.
http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/aqnelum.html
Plant cultivar names are regulated by international agreement. Plant
common names are not. Therefore, your "rule of ignoring typo's [sic]"
applies to cultivar names but not common names. Typos in plant common
names are often retained as new common names such as bodark, bodare
us, bodeck and bodock, all misspellings of bois d'arc (Maclura
pomifera).
David R. Hershey
"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message ...
Other Nelumbo synonyms are
found he http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs...splist.pl?8035
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These include Nelumbo caspicum
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The other names you listed seem to represent cultivar names but they
are not in proper form. Before rules for cultivars were established, a
lot of cultivars were named as botanical varieties or forms. A lot of
the old Latin variety or forma names were grandfathered in as cultivar
names. If the name was in use before the International Code of
Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants took effect, you could properly
write Nelumbo 'Alba Grandiflora' and Nelumbo 'Pekinensis Rubra'. I
didn't see Nelumbo 'Caspicum' on the following unofficial list of
Nelumbo cultivars, but it seems to be in the trade.
http://www.victoria-adventure.org/lo..._names_a-e.htm
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Looks like a good example of the rule of ignoring typo's:
"misspellings are not included"
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