Frank Posted March 16, 2019 Report Share Posted March 16, 2019 Finally, online today at: https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea/pre-prints/content-nbc-blumea-0485# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stone Jaguar Posted March 16, 2019 Report Share Posted March 16, 2019 Thank you for the heads-up, Frank! An excellent resource and, obviously, much to quibble with. It is clear that the authors have taken a very "safe" route and only accepted species with very clear major morphological differences. The placement of the species treated into natural "Groups" is a very useful development. While this treatment is not necessarily new, it is very well fleshed-out in the paper. The sinking of all Philippine Hydnophytum spp. into H. formicarum and H. moseleyanum may warrant closer scrutiny down the road. J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff Posted March 17, 2019 Report Share Posted March 17, 2019 thank you FRANK it remains for us to read, re-read and re-read again ,to impregnate us with this revision jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrick Posted March 17, 2019 Report Share Posted March 17, 2019 (edited) As I update Epiphytic Myrmecophytes: Bizarre Wonder of Nature 2019 (currently almost through chapter 9, Hydnophytum, I uncovered quite a number of hints of what to expect in a revision. About a week ago someone on the WWW reported that this revision was imminent but I found that vary hard to believe. We had waited soooo long. I now have to re-evaluate this entire chapter that has already involved many months of work. It has been designed primarily as a searchable a database, supported with photographs wherever possible. So it probably still has value for a wide range of enthusiasts. I do wonder how much will change as botanists apply ever more molecular genetics in their work; for example, some of what are only suggested manuscript names may need to be resurrected. My database probably has most of them. Edited June 1, 2019 by Derrick typographical error Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken Posted March 21, 2019 Report Share Posted March 21, 2019 Thank you Frank! Great reading and the illustrations by Rosemary Wise are fantastic!. The retention of the morphologically Hydnophytum-like Squamellaria in the genus Squamellaria for purposes of 'stability' and to support a 'Phylogenetic Concept' indicates (at least to me) that future genetic investigations into the group may eventually lead to some differing conclusions. Don't throw those old names away yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff Posted March 22, 2019 Report Share Posted March 22, 2019 Bonjour see here a very good document on this genus squamellaria https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151317 jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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