At 10:24 AM 9/11/2012, you wrote:
> Hi UD, Chris
>
> The 'wonder' has started. The differential that Rauh did appears to be a
> load of twaddle. Just the reference to 5mm fb on rusbyi alone doesn't match
> with the dried specimens, more like a bit over 10mm (like barthlottii),
> stamens enclosed - not if the 'TK1' pic is of a plant in Bolivia, nor the
> arrangement of the spikes. The barthlottii/rusbyi plants grow all through
> Peru according to Jeff Kent so it is not surprising that the odd one might
> slip over the border into Bolivia. I'll ask him if he remembers where this
> batch came from. It is a little vegetatively different to the barthlottii I
> got in Europe, coll. in Ecuador - leaves more upright for starters. They
> seem easy to grow as long as they aren't whacked out with the tectorums!
> What to call them? If collected in Ecuador/Peru - barthlottii, if Bolivia -
> rusbyi, if no idea, take a pick - same basic species imo. T barthlottii
> might end up a synonym for rusbyi then and it took me over 30 years of
> collecting to finally get a plant named barthlottii through Q!
>
> Cheers, Pedro (with Derk)
