Iris Registration
- To: Iris ListServer <I*@Rt66.com>
- Subject: Iris Registration
- From: B* S* <7*@CompuServe.COM>
- Date: 15 Apr 96 18:44:50 EDT
On the subject of species irises and AIS Registration, Sharon McAllister wrote:
>Seriously, though, I won't attempt to discuss species in general -- but I HAVE
>spent a great deal of time researching just this question as it applies to the
>aril species. I've found quite a few that have been accorded species status by
>one expert or another over the years, which I could not find in AIS Checklists.
>This includes some of the species recognized by Brian Mathew, upon whose
>system. ASI's current definition of aril iris is based.
With the changing of species family names and the re-naming of some genus and
species names, and naming of new species, a species does NOT have to be in the
AIS checklist to receive an AIS award. It has to be the requirements of the
AIS "Handbook for Judges and Show Officials", Chapter C-15, Exhibition Judging
Species Irises. The first senence states: "For species, a validly published
botanical binomial is considered the equivalent of a registered name." This
covers the ones not in AIS CheckLists. Old AIS Checklists certainly could not
reflect new changes
in binomial nomenclature and new checklists may not either, as Sharon pointed
out.
>In practical terms, of course, the odds of one of these species turning up at a
>show are miniscule!
If they do show up and they meet the above requirements, then they're covered!
Bill Smoot AIS Region 4 73210.1725@compuservecom
