Re: No 'Kosobe'?

From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Date: Fri Jan 10 1997 - 09:12:55 PST


Date:          Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:12:55 
From: SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg147$foo@default>
Subject:       Re: No 'Kosobe'?

Dear Dave,

> N: [Nepenthes ' Kosobe ' {Hort. ex Mellichamp}]nom.nud.
> P: Carniv.Pl.Newsl.8:17 (1979)
> S: =[Nepenthes alata {Blanco}]
>
> N: [Nepenthes * ' Kosobe ' {Hort. ex Hort.Bednar}]
> P: in sched. (1993)
> S: =[[Nepenthes mirabilis {(Lour.) Druce}] * [[Nepenthes rafflesiana {Jack}] *
> [Nepenthes ampullaria {Jack}]]]
>
> Jan, this on your list.

Yes, I know.

> Who's name is that?

This is exactly the question. Neither list entry refers to a proper
publication. The first is a nomen nudum (without description, only
synonym statement), the second is from informal communication (in
schedis, i.e. on herbarium or garden plant lables).

> Aren't all crosses of this type N. * wrigliana

Obviously the first is not even a cross at all.

> (or the name which came first, if any)?

The first name used for the taxon (i.e. not specific cultivars) was
apparently N. * stewartii (1879).

> At least that" wrigliana" name is much older than the cultivar name
> from 1993...

Yes, N. * wrigleyana is from 1882.

Kind regards
Jan



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