The New Cactus Lexicon
After a lengthy gestation period, the New Cactus Lexicon was published this summer. El arte de tocar el saxofon pdf. For ease of handling it’s divided into two volumes – the text volume is a concise alphabetical catalogue of cactus genera, species and subspecies accepted or proposed in the current standard literature on cacti, while the atlas volume contains more than 2500 illustrations covering nearly all of the species and subspecies recognized in the text, sometimes with two or more images. All about The new cactus lexicon by David Hunt. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers.
The New Cactus Lexicon
He's involved in making an updated CITES Cactaceae Checklist (CCC3) and had been talking about how he wanted to use the same nomenclature in both CCC3 and any New Cactus Lexicon update (NCL2). Because CCC3 needed to use widely agreed nomenclature for international acceptance by laymen/customs officials this might have minimsed the changes NCL to NCL2 if CCC3 and NCL2 were to be complementary/linked. The timeframe for CCC3 seems to keep shifting (now looking like the next big CITES meeting in late September). He could be thinking of trying to get NCL2 ready for then or, like NCL came some time after CCC2, getting CCC3 out of the way and then making NCL2 much later, maybe introducing more of the taxonomic changes suggested by molecular studies.
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There is the beginnings of a TdC vol 3, too! The 'New Cactus Lexicon' (NCL) was largely based on morphology. With new DNA work conflicting with many of the old morphologically lumped genera I guess a few updates to the present NCL would be pointless since it would now need a complete rewrite and republish, starting from scratch in light of the new evidence. Human nature being what it is the problem then being few existing classifiers want to tear up their classifications and start afresh admitting they got it wrong.