Hey Jay,
It's an interesting development. I guess it was considered
rare and feared lost by botanists for some time.
Meanwhile I discovered a bag of the stuff that I'd
forgotten about - was sitting in a cabinet for about 4
weeks. It's still green, and spent a few days in-transit
before that from TN. This is some bulletproof stuff.
Erik
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:00:04 -00
jayl-@greenstouch.com wrote:
| | Thanks for heads up Erik.
Claus mentioned about Tropica changing Pellia's name and
making it official in TAG. I guess we beat him :).
Here is the rescent response from Claus on APD list
"""When Tropica got the "Pellia" from an exhibition and a
nursery in Asia, we got
it with the name "Pellia endiviaefolia"!
As usually we send it for identification at the
scientific specialists!
We got some indications, that the right name perhaps was
"Pellia endiviaefolia",
but we had to be patient for the final identification!
There was also a
discussion on different synonyms - but we decided to wait
until the scientific
work was finish!
The final identification is now finished, and it will be
published in the next
issue of "The Aquatic Gardener" and in the German "Aqua
Planta"! It is both a
new genera and species name!
I better wait with the name - until the magazines write
about in the near future
:)
I do not like when we at Tropica introduce a plant under
a wrong name - but it
is what happens - some times the identification takes so
long time that we
cannot wait until we do have the right name! Some times
it can take many years
before we are sure on the names! And some times - the
plants will change names
be course of new scientific works! The last years more
than 10 plants have
changed names. In the future some of the Echinodorus will
also change names!
Best regards
Claus"""
----- Original Message -----
From: Erik Leung
Sent: 7/30/2003 7:54:41 PM
To: detr-@topica.com
Subject: [detritus] Pellia -> Monoselenium
| | For those of you keeping "Pellia endiviaefolia" -
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Tropica has it
| | re-named and listed as Monoselenium tenerum
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er-@e-aquaria.com
