So, will none of the taxonomists on this forum reply to my e-mail? >Well, > my pink form rhodocheila (what Eric Christenson now calls >H. ericmichaelii) is opening. I can see some definite differences >between the flower forms, the general carriage of the plant, the >foliage, etc. My question is this: if the pink form of H. rhodocheila >was the basis for the description of the species and the orange form >discovered later (or perhaps lumped later into H. rhodocheila), is it >proper to separate out the type form into a new species and leave the >orange form in the original species, especially considering the fact >that the rose-lipped form is more appropriate to the specific epithet? > >I would think just the obverse to be more appropriate...put the orange >form into its own species and leave the rose-lipped form in the species >in which it was originally described.
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