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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: johnw on November 27, 2008, 12:10:27 PM
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Philip MacDougall was recently in korea and mentioned collecting a perennial he said was Ainslea. I cannot find it on the internet and have also tried Ainsleya and Ainslia. Any suggestions on the correct spelling?
johnw
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Ainsliaea?
A. aptera (Pakistan to Bhutan)
A. walkerae (Hong Kong)
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Philip MacDougall was recently in korea and mentioned collecting a perennial he said was Ainslea. I cannot find it on the internet and have also tried Ainsleya and Ainslia. Any suggestions on the correct spelling?
johnw
The International Plant Name Index is a good place to start and check whether a name has ever been in use. Take care with using this database as it is a historical database, and many of the names are obsolete and/or misspelt, and the pages do not necessarily refer you to all the synonyms, and which is the current name. I started with the Plant Database section and put in Ains* and it directed me to Ainsliaea as a genus in Asteraceae with a listing of all the species.
www.ipni.org
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Two species are offered by this supplier:
http://www.asiaticanursery.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/plants.viewCategory/catID/47/index.htm
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There was a revision of the genus; Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, pp. 79–191 Vol 94, Issue 1 (April 2007)
Link to abstract here; http://tinyurl.com/6oz4sn
If you search on Google for "Flora of China draft Ainsliaea" you should get an HTML file with a key, including Korea and Japan if the species is present there also.
Many of the species are all highly attractive garden plants, like Prenanthes, Cacalia, Polymnia, etc.
Aaron Floden
Knoxville, TN
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Thanks all and Diane especially for the IPNI link.
johnw - +8c at 10:45pm