Re: N. burkei and N. ventricosa

From: Doug and Meryl Fraser (D.Fraser@bom.gov.au)
Date: Sat Jan 11 1997 - 04:05:33 PST


Date:          Sat, 11 Jan 1997 12:05:33 +0000
From: "Doug and Meryl Fraser" <D.Fraser@bom.gov.au>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg156$foo@default>
Subject:       Re: N. burkei and N. ventricosa

Hi,
With regard to N. burkei I have just seen a photo that a friend took
in the Philipines. It looks like a giant form of N. ventricosa but
the waist is not as distinctive as it is on N. ventricosa. He
believes that it may be N. burkei. The plants that I have labelled
in my collection as N. burkei are identical to those that I have
labelled as N. ventricosa and the resulting 'hybrids' between the two
are identical to all the other N. ventricosa's that frequent my
shadehouse. If N. ventricosa and N. burkei are the same species why
is N. ventricosa (Blanco, 1898) considered the correct name, when N.
burkei (Veitch, 1897) was published first. Please correct me if my
information is incorrect.
Meryl



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