Hi John
I know that one is a epiphyte and
the other is a terrestrial!
But I have never heard of Dockrillia sulphurea and thought Jones may have
listed a desription and or a photo of it in his new book.
Have you seen it??
Malcolm
"John Varigos" wrote in message
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Malcolm
Peter Adams presented his data at a recent meeting of Australian Native
Orchid Society (Victoria) focusing on the species complex Dendrobium
speciosum and made a cogent argument for not splitting into different
genera. What I found fascinating was that despite working in very similar
areas, Peter and David Jones had only met twice over the past 15 years. I
would have thought that these two researchers would be in regular contact
to discuss their findings in spite of their obvious different slant on the
subject.
Re Dockrillia sulphurea and Diuris sulphurea, the first is an epiphyte and
the second a terrestrial!
Cheers
John
"Mal Mac" wrote in message
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This link to an abstract of an article recently published may be of
interest??
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a6715773k58xw42l/
Malcolm
"Mal Mac" wrote in message
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I don't think any of the new changes have been accepted by KEW.
Dockrillia sulphurea sounds like it should be Diurus sulphurea????
Is there any description of it ?????
Malcolm
"Dave Gillingham" wrote in message
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I'm adding to my previous pair of:
Cadetia clausa
Dockrillia sulphurea
Jones has three species for which I can find nothing in the Australian
Plant
Name Index, & nothing in a web search. They a
Tropilis crassa
Tropilis eburna
Tropilis radiata
I'm prety sure these are simply regional variants on Dendrobium aemulum
(Jonesified as Tropilis aemula). But nowhere else can I fine listed
taxonomic
varieties of D. aemulum. The texts just say it's a variable species.
If needs be, I'll just list all species against D. aemulum in the index
cross-reference I'm compiling. But, if there are published taxonomic
listings
that match the above species I'd like to use them.
If anyone is more competent at internet searching than I, & can turn up
something, I'd be extremely grateful.
Dave Gillingham
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