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Sansevieria sp. 'Bally 12681'

Steve and all,

Sansevieria sp. 'Mutomo' comes, as its name indicates from Mutomo, Kenya.
Collected by Jerry Barad, it is allied to S. suffruticosa along with scores
of other similar looking plants. It is a plant with large leaves the size
of S. suffruticosa. There are still other plants that digress by their
different color and size.

Personally, I do not think that S. sp. "Bally 12681' is a form of S.
suffruticosa var. longituba. Have you also checked the length of the
petals, filaments, pistil and clusters? Are they the same as those of S.
suffruticosa?

Also, I do not believe that S. suffruticosa var. longituba qualifies as a
variety. For me Pfennig's observations of the "variety" do not warrant a
new variety. I think the numbers for the tube lengths are within the
variations of the species.

Further, unless validly published otherwise, S. sp. "Bally 12681" should
stay as such and nothing should be changed. Also, if published, "ballii"
would be correct and "ballyi" would be wrong. Unfortunately the Code of
Botanical Nomenclature only gives a "cookbook" approach to producing the
genitive of a name in Latin (by saying add one "i", etc., etc.) and does
not tell one how to produce the nominative. If it did, one could easily
determone that the nominative is "Ballius" and the genitive "ballii" making
it very easy for everybody. Remember: "y" is Greek, "i" is Latin.

Since the Code clearly specifies that the name of a validly described
species is final (with exceptions for diacriticals) the name S. stuckyi
should be retained.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a very happy New Year to all.

Juan
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