Talk:Persoonia

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more to go but I'm stuffed...sleep time Cas Liber 15:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Great stuff. Your pers. comm. ref didn't have a year so I inserted 2006. Snottygobble 00:48, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

thanks for that - had another idea. I can link it to Peter's personal webpage at Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (which I will do next time I'm on broadband at home/work)Cas Liber 06:04, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Geebungs are Australian endemics?

To quote Flannery in "The Future Eaters": "Geebungs (Genus Persoonia) so common in eastern Australia, also grow in New Zealand."

Anyone care to comment. Hard to imagine Flannery making a mistake of this kind. Have the NZ species been re-designated to another genus in the past 10 years?

Thanks for that. I checked Weston (1995), and it describes Persoonia as "a genus of 98 species, all endemic in Australia." However, the Flora of New Zealand (1982) online database contains a listing for the genus, describing it as "shrubs or small trees; about 60 spp. of Australia and 1 endemic to N.Z". It lists species Persoonia toru as endemic to New Zealand. However, according to the IPNI online database, Persoonia toru was broken out into its own monospecific genus Toronia (i.e. Toronia toru) in 1975.

On the basis of this, I think we can assume that Flannery has succumbed to confusion about Toronia and got it wrong.

Snottygobble 12:25, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for checking that. Sounds like this is one of those taxa where the lumpers and splitters are going at it hammer and tongs. I'm happy enough to leave it as is, but would suggest a comment to the effect of "a closely related genus (Toronia) is found in NZ and is included within the genus Persoonia by some authors"? I leave the final decision in your hands. 211.29.68.194 21:49, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough, done Cas Liber 06:24, 9 September 2006 (UTC)