In a message dated 2/2/07 8:55:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And who was the taxonomic authority who moved them and how accepted was the > change? > If you will go to the Kew Checklist you will find the following: Cirrhopetalum Lindl., Edwards' Bot. Reg. 10: t. 832 (1824).
This name is not Accepted by: (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3 (1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. Continental Publishing, Deurne. [as Bulbophyllum] (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [as Bulbophyllum] By the way, did you know the name is spelled wrong anyway? Cirrhopetalum means orange petals, which is probably not what Lindley intended. He probably meant to name it Cirropetalum, which means wispy petals. But the name stuck as is. Iris
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