silence882
May 2nd, 2006, 11:43 PM
Anyone know if the albino form of Paph. stonei has been officially described?
Also, shouldn't exact quotes in books be noted as such, even if the book being quoted is by the same author? I ask this because of a passage concerning Paph. lynniae in Cribb's 1998 monograph. Here is the quote:
"He compared it with P. lowii but it differs in having glabrous sepals, ovary, pedicel, bracts, peduncle and rachis, a keeled dorsal sepal and two-keeled synsepal, both lightly spotted in their basal halves, and a staminode with three equal apical teeth and a long basal umbo. It may be that its relationship to P. lowii is similar to that between P. parishii and P. dianthum in mainland South-east Asia, but its isolated occurrence in cultication and lack of exact provenance suggests that it is more likely a variation of P. lowii, which is a widespread species in Borneo.... Certainly, more needs to be known about its distribution and natural variation."
This passage is exactly the same as in his 1997 books, Slipper Orchids of Borneo. Shouldn't this be explicitly noted?
--Stephen
Also, shouldn't exact quotes in books be noted as such, even if the book being quoted is by the same author? I ask this because of a passage concerning Paph. lynniae in Cribb's 1998 monograph. Here is the quote:
"He compared it with P. lowii but it differs in having glabrous sepals, ovary, pedicel, bracts, peduncle and rachis, a keeled dorsal sepal and two-keeled synsepal, both lightly spotted in their basal halves, and a staminode with three equal apical teeth and a long basal umbo. It may be that its relationship to P. lowii is similar to that between P. parishii and P. dianthum in mainland South-east Asia, but its isolated occurrence in cultication and lack of exact provenance suggests that it is more likely a variation of P. lowii, which is a widespread species in Borneo.... Certainly, more needs to be known about its distribution and natural variation."
This passage is exactly the same as in his 1997 books, Slipper Orchids of Borneo. Shouldn't this be explicitly noted?
--Stephen