Aroid Forum: Subspecies vs. species?

IAS Aroid Quasi Forum

About Aroid-L
This is a continuously updated archive of the Aroid-L mailing list in a forum format - not an actual Forum. If you want to post, you will still need to register for the Aroid-L mailing list and send your postings by e-mail for moderation in the normal way.

Subspecies vs. species?

From: MOTO_DO at t-online.de (Thomas Mottl) on 1999.01.13 at 15:11:28(2889)
Aroiders,
What I ever want to know is how is a subspecies defined? No botanist I
asked gave me a sharp definition. Or is it only a point of view?
For. example: The Anthurium guayanum Bunting was in the revision of the
Section Pachyneurinum made to ssp. of Anthurium bonplandii.
Yesterday I get Vol.II Flora of the Venezuelan Guyana.
There I found that Dr. Bunting who write the Araceae part, made this
Anthurium again to a species?
So what is the accepted name?
The only nice definition I found is from Charles Darwin's Life and
Letter P. 105 "Varieties (ssp.) are only small species"
Can somebody give me a hint?
Thomas Mottl
+More
moto_do@t-online.de

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.