Re: Line breeding vs hybridization

From: "Wilbert Hetterscheid" hetter at worldonline.nl> on 2001.06.25 at 20:50:15(6880) Hear, hear, a TRUE cultonomist at word! Compliments Jim Langhammer! problem will be that some of these long-standing Linnean binomials have a very important status in legal documents and what not. We might as well try to live with these entirely cultigenic things having a binomen. But a list must be prepared and all those names then conserved for ever, so as not to change them again. We sort of need to "mummify" those names and list them. Wilbert +More ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: maandag 25 juni 2001 17:43 Subject: Re: Line breeding vs hybridization > In a message dated 6/24/2001 8:36:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > edggon@hotmail.com writes: > > << Dear Jim, > > Now you put my brain in complete confusion. We must remember that the > link between cultivated and wild species is too narrow. >> > > Hey Eduardo, > > You misinterpret what I said. Linnaeus in his early taxonomic efforts treated > some domestic hybrids as "species" - the dog is NOT a species but a hybrid of > a mishmash of wolf subspecies plus ??? (who knows what)! It should not be > given a binomial epithet under international rules. > > Even today many long named plant "species" are being recognized as > "non-species" of domestic or perhaps even naturally-occurring hybrids. The > best treatment of this subject that I know is given in Schmid's THE GENUS > HOSTA. > > Jim Langhammer >

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