Re: Funny Forskaohlei
- To: M*@ucdavis.edu
- Subject: Re: Funny Forskaohlei
- From: "* F* D* <s*@nr.infi.net>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 01:17:57 -0500 (EST)
At 10:09 AM 11/5/1998 +1100, you wrote:
>At 21:51 4/11/98 GMT, Tim wrote:
>
>>The spelling is a problem. Betsy Clebsch has FORSKAOLEI. So does
>>Christine Yeo. So, once upon a time, did T. Longville. Then up popped
>>THE PLANT FINDER, the UK Bible nowadays for plant names, and opted for
>>FORSSKAOLII.
Whoa!
I thought the variations in the spelling of this species was between S.
forskaohlei and S. forskohlei. I thought Linnaeus named this one himself,
after one of his more noted students. I got the first spelling from Flora
Europea, and the second from volume 7 of the Flora of Turkey. I think I've
seen the name spelled S. forskahlei as well. So there seems to be four sets
of variations here:
1. One or two s's
2. a or ao or a
3. H or no H
4. ei or ii
Can someone explain this a bit further, especially the business with the `h'?
RIch Dufresne
