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spatulata or spathulata

Any body can explain to me what is different in the meaning between spatulata or spathulata. Which one is correct or better?
 
i think it is "D. Spathulata" but it is corect to refer to that sundew as either name
alex
 
It should be D. spatulata without the 'h'.

See thread.
 
Thanks!

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Hi BobZ:
You tell me the source! Thank you very much!!!
 
problems again!
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1. sphalm.typogr. was outside the name, what's meaning in this case.
N: [Drosera spathulata {auct.}]sphalm.typogr.


2. At the LFR, what's the meaning of this number.
LFR:
18: Japan-Korea
21: Taiwan
24: Southeastern China
97: South China
 
The spelling 'spathulata' seems to come from the similarly named Nepenthes spathulata. The Drosera species is 'spatulata.'
Sphalm. stands for sphalmate, a printed error or slip of the pen. Auct. stands for auctorum, of authors, usually referring to authors other than the original descriptor of the taxa in question. So I'd guess that sphalm.typogr. refers to a print error by the typographer of some manuscript, and the entire name indicates some plant that was mistaken for Drosera spatulata by certain domain experts, either in literature or perhaps as the result of faulty literature. But the way the whole thing is parenthesized seems strange. It's been a while since I've done taxonomy stuff.
Dunno about those numbers, your guess is as good as mine.
~Joe
 
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(((with pink or white blooms.)))???
I find a strange data, I live in Hong Kong, I know the D. spatulata very well. Many people have a confusion between D.spatulata and D. oblanceolata.

N: $[Drosera ' Hong Kong ' {D'Amato}]
P: Savage Garden:129 (1998)
S: =[Drosera spatulata {Labill.}]
HC: name not registered with IRA, description insufficient
Nominant: ?P.D'Amato
Introducer: ?P.D'Amato, from Hong Kong
Description: Savage Garden:129 (1998)
"[Drosera ' Hong Kong ' {D'Amato}] forms have rosettes about 2.5 cm (one inch) across, with pink or white blooms."
 
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[b said:
Quote[/b] (sam @ Mar. 23 2006,4:40)]problems again!
2. At the LFR, what's the meaning of this number.
LFR:
18: Japan-Korea
21: Taiwan
24: Southeastern China
97: South China
You stumped me too. So when in doubt ask the master and I emailed Rick Walker, the CP Database Webmeister.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]I wrote:
>There was a discussion in the PFT Forum about some info in the Database.
>>
>> As an example, under spatulata there is
>> LFR:
>> 18: Japan-Korea
>> 21: Taiwan
>> 24: Southeastern China
>> 97: South China
>> etc.
>>
>> The Database Entry Format
>> http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/html/db_formt.htm
>> does not explain LFR or what the numbers (18, 21, ...) mean.
>> Can you illuminate?

Rick replied:

These are "Location Floristic Regions".

# General outline following A. Takhtajan (1986)
# Floristic Regions of the World, University of California Press, Berkeley.
#
# TDWG region (political unit) codes according to:
# http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/TDWG/geo/geotdwg1.dtx

Essentially a set of bio-regions delineated and predefined so that any
region can be specified with a small (<153) integer. Much better than
political regions for talking about plant locations.

This is documented in the raw db itself, which is always accessible from
the (non published) URL: ]http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/data/jans.db
http://www.omnisterra.com/botany/cp/data/jans.db[/quote
 
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I like to learn more knowledge about CPs.
Thank you for your teaching!
 
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