Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
- Subject: Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
- From: W* H*
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 15:50:15 -0500 (CDT)
Hear, hear, a TRUE cultonomist at word! Compliments Jim Langhammer! problem
will be that some of these long-standing Linnean binomials have a very
important status in legal documents and what not. We might as well try to
live with these entirely cultigenic things having a binomen. But a list must
be prepared and all those names then conserved for ever, so as not to change
them again. We sort of need to "mummify" those names and list them.
Wilbert
----- Original Message -----
From: <Lewandjim@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L <aroid-l@mobot.org>
Sent: maandag 25 juni 2001 17:43
Subject: Re: Line breeding vs hybridization
> In a message dated 6/24/2001 8:36:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> edggon@hotmail.com writes:
>
> << Dear Jim,
>
> Now you put my brain in complete confusion. We must remember that the
> link between cultivated and wild species is too narrow. >>
>
> Hey Eduardo,
>
> You misinterpret what I said. Linnaeus in his early taxonomic efforts
treated
> some domestic hybrids as "species" - the dog is NOT a species but a hybrid
of
> a mishmash of wolf subspecies plus ??? (who knows what)! It should not be
> given a binomial epithet under international rules.
>
> Even today many long named plant "species" are being recognized as
> "non-species" of domestic or perhaps even naturally-occurring hybrids. The
> best treatment of this subject that I know is given in Schmid's THE GENUS
> HOSTA.
>
> Jim Langhammer
>
