I wonder if anyone can offer any information about or sources relevant to the following oak species: Quercus seibertii Quercus davidsoniae Quercus oocarpa Quercus panamandinaea Quercus corrugata Quercus copeyensis (AKA bumelioides) Quercus seemannii Quercus gulielmi-treleasei Quercus baruensis These species are listed & described in Flora of Panama & occupy a niche environment near the Costa Rican border above 1200m. I'm especially interested to know if any of these have been re-named, re-categorized, or are no longer considered extant species. I am aware that Maarten Kappelle has written about some of these species, but have been unable thus far to access any of the articles written by him online.
I'm not getting any of them turning up on the International Plant Names Index: http://www.ipni.org/ipni/plantnamesearchpage.do May mean they haven't been formally published?
Hi Michael, I appreciate you taking the time to check these out, as I consider you the nomenclature guru here at the UBC forum. I don't know anything about its reliability, but I found the following site that does list most (all?) of them as valid names, although I did read in "Tropical Plants Of Costa Rica" (Zuchowski, 2005) that at least one, Q. copeyensis, has had a name change: http://zipcodezoo.com/Plants/Q/Quercus_baruensis.asp
Here is a photo from the Steere Herbarium of Q. seibertii. There is a notation here about Q. insignis from 1994 that I don't fully understand - perhaps it is suggesting an alternative identity? http://sweetgum.nybg.org/common/imagedisplay.php?irn=19949
Go by the dates of the notations. Apparently that last one was collected and identified as the Q. insignis in 1935, then subsequently determined to be Q. siebertii, only to be returned to Q. insignis in 1994. It may reflect a naming sequence the entire species Q. insignis has gone through, or it could show that there has been some differences of opinion about the placement of that particular specimen. FWIW note also that specimen at last link above is designated as an isotype of Q. siebertii. http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/nph-ind.cgi?k=holotype
Thanks, Ron It does look like the current designation (by some, at least) is Q. insignis. http://mobot.mobot.org/cgi-bin/search_vast?ssdp=01001087 It also appears from Seibert & Woodson's writings (Flora Of Panama I) after that plant collecting expedition that he identified it as such, but with some reservations: "QUERCUS INSIGNIS Mart. & Gal. Chiriqui: valley of the upper Rio Chiriqui Viejo, vicinity of Monte Lirio (Seibert 225). According to Trelease's recent monograph of the American Oaks, this species has previously been known only from southern Mexico. Our specimens, taken from trees not infrequent in the valley of the upper Chiriqui Viejo, certainly accord well with the Mexican representation although the margin of the leaves is apparently quite entire in most cases, and the acorns average somewhat smaller, but not consistently so."
Checked in the Kew Checklist (don't know why I didn't think of this before!!); Quercus seibertii - synonym of Q. insignis: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....pSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=175020&status=false Quercus davidsoniae - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=172438&status=true Quercus oocarpa - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=174194&status=true Quercus panamandinaea - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=174244&status=true Quercus corrugata - synonym of Q. lancifolia: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....pSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=172319&status=false Quercus copeyensis (AKA bumelioides) - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....pSynonym_id=172329&name_id=172306&status=true Also Q. bumelioides accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=171900&status=true Quercus seemannii - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=175012&status=true Quercus gulielmi-treleasei - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=173006&status=true (spelling: Quercus gulielmitreleasei) Quercus baruensis - accepted: http://www.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail....epSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=171750&status=true
Hi just joined group. Am an oakiphile? Member International Oak Society.The website has an article on Q insignis. I. Have been in Guatemala, BELIZE,Honduras,Chiapas,etc, Q insignis grows but it is not accessible as it would be poached if word got out. Plant our native oak Q garryana.
