RE: SPEC: I. maackii
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- Subject: RE: SPEC: I. maackii
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- Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 09:58:45 EDT
n a message dated 5/3/00 9:14:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bills@hsc.edu
writes:
<< Is I. maackii possibly a synonym of I. pseudacorus? >>
"By the kindness of Dr. B. Fedtschenko I have recently been allowed to see
the unique specimen on which Maximowicz founded his I. Maacki. This was found
by Maack on the left bank of the Ussuri opposite the mouth of the Ima, and
consists merely of a few leaves and the upper part of a branched stem bearing
mature capsules of ripe seeds. The oblong capsules vary in size, but the
largest is nearly 3/1/2 in. long, and all have the charateristic short broad
beak of the species [I. laevigata] The seeds too are dark brown, with smooth
skins....Mme Olda Fedtschenko has recently sent me a copy of a note printed
in Kneucker's Allgemeine Botanische Zeitscrift no. 6, 1906, in which she also
comes to the conclusion that I. Maacki is nothing but a synonym of I.
laevigata. The plant was originally identified by Regel as I. pseudacorus
(Tent. Fl. Ussur. 490), which does not, however, extend into Eastern Asia."
From the section on I. laevigata in The Genus Iris by William Rickatson
Dykes, p.73f
Anner, in Virginia
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