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I think that at one time there may have been a fairly good page about Heterophylly, but recent history shows converting a redirect to something else. It is now an inappropriate redirect to Heterophily. Can someone who knows how to look at ancient page history work out what has happened there? Heterophyllous is showing as a red link in a few places such as on Pinguicula. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 00:55, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm going to redirect to the Glossary of botanical terms and start working on an article for heterophyllous in the draft space if I do not see objections. Edit to add: Also, clearly I should try making a list of every possible botanical term and watching all those redirects for well intention people who do not know about plants editing them. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 01:51, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That is much better, thanks! So there's no way to recover whatever was there ... I think there might have been this image One of each pair of leaves at a node is tiny. to show the extreme size dimorphism in the two leaves at a node in some Columnea species. That's not the easiest image to interpret, but unfortunately we don't have any pictures of Columnea hookeriana. (There are other types of heterophylly of course.) Sminthopsis84 (talk) 02:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I have no idea if it is recoverable or not. I just did a search for heterophylly and found the redirects for discussion that I linked. If there was an earlier discussion for heterophyllous I did not find it, but my searching could be weak. I just tried searching for both terms on all the templates, template talk, and wikipedia talk with the assumption that a deletion discussion would show up. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 03:13, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I've bodged up a first edit of a draft at Draft:Heterophyllous. I'm self taught and relying on books I've found on archive.org, so I would appreciate other editors working on it. Or even just pointing me at sources and saying, "Look there." For a basic explanation I think The Growth of Leaves has not lead me too far wrong on the difference between heteroblastic and heterophyllous. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 03:34, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Ah yes, I'm sure you are right, I have misremembered. That image is used at Anisophylly. There's a bit of variation in usage, but I'd be happy with a distinction being kept here between the two, rather than cramming that meaning into heterophylly. Perhaps the simplest solution is to restrict heterophylly to the aquatic plants and have a largish "see also" section on each page. However, we have seasonal heterophylly (and Lammas growth separate). It's a bit of a tangle. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 23:55, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
1) I think that the article should be at the noun (heterophylly) rather than the adjective (heterophyllous).
2) I think that the distinction between heterophylly and heteroblasty is as honoured in the breach as in the observance, but confirming that probably requires original research. Lavateraguy (talk) 08:04, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the good suggestions. I will keep looking and see if I can find any sources that discuss how heterophylly and heteroblasty are actually used in literature as opposed to how they are defined in theory. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 15:13, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I recently updated the taxonomy of Hibiscus × rosa-sinensis, treating it as a nothospecies. The treatment is accepted by PoWO and is based on:
Braglia, Luca; Thomson, Lex A. J.; Cheek, Martin; Mabberley, David J. & Butaud, Jean-François (2024), "Pacific Species of Hibiscus sect. Lilibiscus (Malvaceae). 4. The Origin of Hibiscus Rosa-Sinensis: A 300-Year-Old Mystery Solved", Pacific Science, 77 (4): 395–415, doi:10.2984/77.4.3
The authors are in favour of splitting Hibiscus and Pavonia, but only introduced 3 of the necessary new genera (Astrohibiscus, Blanchardia and Cravenia), though they do propose resurrecting quite a few older generic names. Lavateraguy (talk) 12:25, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Should these uncited articles be merged or deleted or cited or what?
There is a request at Talk:Jabuticaba following on from a bit of edit warring and discussion in 2018 and 2019 to move the page either to Jaboticaba or to Plinia cauliflora. There are claims that the current spelling is unusual, rare in web searches, and not in line with Portuguese. Gbif calls it Brazillian grape tree. Janick & Paull call it Jaboticaba, GRIN common names list both spellings as Portuguese. Is there a wikiproject-plants policy to resolve this perhaps by resorting to that ancient tie-breaker, namely Latin? Sminthopsis84 (talk) 00:13, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That wasn't edit warring so much as a descriptionless rollback of an incomplete edit. I don't think this change would be controversial to anybody in English language circles, as it's pretty much only *because* Wikipedia comes first in search results that it's ever spelled "jabuticaba" here (almost all of cited pages calling it "jabuticaba" are either articles by laymen written several years after the Wikipedia article became prominent, or Brazilian/portuguese-language articles). Dictionaries and encyclopedias have been responsible for spelling changes over the years, but it doesn't need to happen here. Most physical dictionaries and even Wiktionary actually use the "o" spelling, Wikipedia is a very odd outlier. The page doesn't get high traffic from Wikipedians (there's a lot of spelling and phrasing and formatting and translation inconsistency on the page in general, for example there are multiple instances of "jaboticaba" already on the page), so it's unlikely that things will ever change without a push. There was no dissent or even further comment in the original discussion for five years straight. In any case, I support moving the page to Plinia cauliflora because "jaboticaba" is a term that is used for multiple species, like "fig", in the first place. 2600:100F:B1C5:C6B3:A113:6D12:8834:771C (talk) 17:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting. It seems that Rughidia and its species are not listed in POWO/WFO/IPNI (though Peucedanum cordatum is) because none of them have been validly published. They are listed in the World Plants checklist and in several papers on Apiaceae, with the ined. (meaning unpublished) qualifier. I haven't yet tracked down the paper that initially proposed these names (will edit this comment if I do), but this paper[1] from 2000 notes of R. cordata and R. milleri that "the name is not intended by the authors to be formally published in this paper; a formal description of this Socotran taxon is currently being prepared". It seems that no formal description was ever published, with articles as recent as this year[2] still noting that these names have not been validly published. Not quite sure where that leaves us, though... Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 03:25, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In our passes through Apiaceae while converting to automatic taxoboxes, Peter coxhead and I have intentionally left manual taxoboxes in place for these taxa (that is, we refrained from creating a probably unnecessary taxonomy template for Rughidia). Rughidia milleri at least should perhaps be deleted (along with a bunch of other articles created by Polbot for IUCN listed "species" that haven't been formally published). Plantdrew (talk) 05:31, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
In the case of "Dysphania incisa", POWO accepts only, that this species belongs to genus Dysphania. It was transferred to this genus as Dysphania graveolens (Lag. & Rodr.) Mosyakin & Clemants, but this name is a nom. illeg., and a replacement name has not yet been published [see https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dysphania_graveolens]. The oldest basionym would be Chenopodium incisum Poir., Encycl. [J. Lamarck & al.] Suppl. 1. 392 (1810). --Thiotrix (talk) 09:01, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Could someone please direct me to either a Wikipedia policy or essay OR something in the Plants project that contains discussion about when to create an independent article for a nothospecies (hybrid)? I have read this more than once, may have saved the information, but I can't find it now. Thanks! – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 16:22, 2 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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