Subspecies vs. species?
- To: lindsey@mallorn.com
- Subject: Subspecies vs. species?
- From: M*@t-online.de (Thomas Mottl)
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:11:28 -0600
Aroiders,
What I ever want to know is how is a subspecies defined? No botanist I
asked gave me a sharp definition. Or is it only a point of view?
For. example: The Anthurium guayanum Bunting was in the revision of the
Section Pachyneurinum made to ssp. of Anthurium bonplandii.
Yesterday I get Vol.II Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana.
There I found that Dr. Bunting who write the Araceae part, made this
Anthurium again to a species?
So what is the accepted name?
The only nice definition I found is from Charles Darwin's Life and
Letter P. 105 "Varieties (ssp.) are only small species"
Can somebody give me a hint?
Thomas Mottl
moto_do@t-online.de
