Re: Cimicifuga -> Actaea rename?

You'll find all the Cimicifuga -> Actaea references from James 
Compton - who's very friendly and helpful - in the back of the 
2002/2003 PlantFinder, page755. My 2003/2004 edition has not yet 
arrived but I presume they'll be in there too. (Chris: how did you 
get yours so soon?)

If you go to The PlantFinder online 
(http://www.rhs.org.uk/rhsplantfinder/plantfinder.asp) and search on 
Cimicifuga japonica it comes up as Actaea japonica; search on 
Cimicifuga simplex White Pearl (leaving out the quotation marks 
around the cv name which we've all been urged by the RHS to use for 
years!) and it comes up as Actaea matsumurae 'White Pearl'.

Graham Rice
Northamptonshire UK, and Pennsylvania USA



>Hi everybody,
>
>    I'm wading through the 2003-2004 RHS Plant Finder to correct the
>    nomenclature for plants in the hort.net image gallery.
>
>    I'm up to Cimicifuga now and am not sure what to do.  I've known
>    for a while that Cimicifuga was renamed to Actaea based on DNA
>    evidence at Kew, but I wasn't aware that the plants didn't just
>    have their genus renamed.  In some cases the specific epithet was
>    changed as well.
>
>    For example, Cimicifuga rubifolia is now called Actaea cordifolia,
>    but Cimcifuga racemosa is called Actaea racemosa.  And it appears
>    that C. acerina is now Actaea japonica var. acerina.
>
>    Does anyone know what the new names are for
>
>       Cimicifuga japonica
>       Cimicifuga simplex 'White Pearl'
>
>    I *think* that these are now
>
>       Actaea japonica
>       Actaea matsumurae 'White Pearl'
>
>    Or better yet, does anyone have a copy of the original paper that they
>    could send me?
>
>    And to confuse things even further, the ePIC database at Kew still
>    refers to them as Cimificuga in some cases.  :)
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chris
>
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