Ceropegia
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Ceropegia
Ever come across The National Gardening Association?
In their database they seem to have lumped all Stapeliads into Ceropegia - https://garden.org/plants/search/text.php?q=huernia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What's that all about?
In their database they seem to have lumped all Stapeliads into Ceropegia - https://garden.org/plants/search/text.php?q=huernia" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
What's that all about?
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Re: Ceropegia
Catalogue lof Life. That is what that is all about.
Initially I was really excited about the database at the NGA, as it allows for a lot of plant specific information to be entered, but I soon found out that they strictly and unbendingly adhere to nomenclature and taxonomy according to the Catalogue of Life, with some noted exceptions that no one is willing to explain. It looks like in the CoL, Huernia is apparently considered a synonym and Ceropegia is the accepted name.
I guess I can understand picking a source for nomenclature and taxonomy and sticking to it, but their adherence is so strict that even if you present what most of us would probably find convincing evidence as to why a plant should be included in spite of CoL they will not. I have been in some battles with database moderators over an Aloe or two and an Agave here and there, where CoL appears out of date or at least incredibly out of touch with the plant specific literature. Unsuccessfully... So I have given up. I communicate with some people there who have not made it over to Agaveville, but I have stopped trying to add to their database.
Initially I was really excited about the database at the NGA, as it allows for a lot of plant specific information to be entered, but I soon found out that they strictly and unbendingly adhere to nomenclature and taxonomy according to the Catalogue of Life, with some noted exceptions that no one is willing to explain. It looks like in the CoL, Huernia is apparently considered a synonym and Ceropegia is the accepted name.
I guess I can understand picking a source for nomenclature and taxonomy and sticking to it, but their adherence is so strict that even if you present what most of us would probably find convincing evidence as to why a plant should be included in spite of CoL they will not. I have been in some battles with database moderators over an Aloe or two and an Agave here and there, where CoL appears out of date or at least incredibly out of touch with the plant specific literature. Unsuccessfully... So I have given up. I communicate with some people there who have not made it over to Agaveville, but I have stopped trying to add to their database.
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Re: Ceropegia
I have some more information on this.
I spoke with John Pilbeam, author of the excellent book Stapeliads last night and it seems that Peter Bruyns who is THE expert on Stapeliads has decided that the rule of prior description should apply so has gone all the way back to Linnaeus in 1753 who first described them all as Ceropegia! Thus Hoodias, Pseudolithos, Stapelia whatever are now Ceropegia! Quite ridiculous and nobody is going to accept that.
It's like having all cacti in the genus Cactus or all trees in a genus Tree.
I spoke with John Pilbeam, author of the excellent book Stapeliads last night and it seems that Peter Bruyns who is THE expert on Stapeliads has decided that the rule of prior description should apply so has gone all the way back to Linnaeus in 1753 who first described them all as Ceropegia! Thus Hoodias, Pseudolithos, Stapelia whatever are now Ceropegia! Quite ridiculous and nobody is going to accept that.
It's like having all cacti in the genus Cactus or all trees in a genus Tree.
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Re: Ceropegia
From another forum:-
Yes, he hasn't decided the rule of priority should apply: it applies. It's more that, having decided to combine several genera, his choice of Ceropegia for the genus into which he transfers the others is based on priority - it will be the oldest of the genera he has combined.
I can't access the article but there's a hint of his reasoning in the abstract at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 9916339242
Yes, he hasn't decided the rule of priority should apply: it applies. It's more that, having decided to combine several genera, his choice of Ceropegia for the genus into which he transfers the others is based on priority - it will be the oldest of the genera he has combined.
I can't access the article but there's a hint of his reasoning in the abstract at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 9916339242
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 9916339242" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: Ceropegia
If you don't have access to the publication in Science Direct or Research Gate, In Defense Of Plants has a intersting blog post on the move to Ceropegia, which I assume is a summary of the publication linked to in post #7. The blog post has some history and reasoning for the move to Ceropegia.
The Genus Ceropegia Recently Got a Whole Lot Bigger
The Genus Ceropegia Recently Got a Whole Lot Bigger
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I have both the original South African Journal of Botany article and the corrigendum that followed it downloaded, PM me if you are interested in reading it.
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