Re: Iris pallida cultivars and nomenclatural question

--- In iris-species@yahoogroups.com, dferguson@c... wrote:
"It is quite an interesting situation with Iris...."

You make your points well, Dave.

I have a question--

About forty years ago there were journal articles from various 
authors confronting the kinds of questions you are raising, and also 
those distinctions among various families in the control 
of "splitters" vs. "combiners," or some other term like that--
perhaps "joiners," I don't recall.  The genus *Iris* was in the 
latter group.

To set the confusion to rest there was a proposal floating around to 
shift to standardizing on a different terminology based on 
chromosomal studies (and later, undoubtedly DNA fingerprinting would 
have or has been included) with terms like "Cenogenus" 
and "cenospecies."

Has all that gone into the dim mists of taxonomic history, or is 
there still life in the proposal?

Neil Mogensen  z 7  western NC mountains



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