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The reason I asked Chris Burton, on that other forum, for a clarification about H. golamcoiana is because she and Liddle/Forster lumped it together with H. cumingiana and H. densifolia saying they were all 3 the same, different clones or ssp. of eachother. Ed Gilding gave me H. golamcoiana and some seeds from his plant and disagreed with her saying that they are different which can be seen in the physical appearance of the flower parts.
Kloppenberg published H. golamcoiana but that does not mean it IS a different species. Many have published many hoyas incorrectly...as is being found every day. Even Ms. Burton has made that mistake and admitted it. The Index Kewensis is a list of published species, not all of them correctly published.
So...I was reading in The Hoyan, Vol. #20, page 50 that she stated she did NOT think them all syn. - that after seeing George Slussers photomicrographs of H. golamcoiana, H. cumingiana and H. densifolia (called the large leafed H. cumingiana) ARE the same ... but that H. golamcoiana is NOT. Assuming that what she says IS true and that she DOES want to help clear up the confusion of names/labels/IDs I asked her that question AND I had the bad luck to spell it wrong twice: once, a typo in one spelling, and,the second time, spell it incorrectly as she spelled it in the a rticle.
The ISSUE at hand IS - is H. golamcoiana a different species according to Chris Burton, or is my question invalid because my fingers misspelled the word?
I DO care what my hoyas are labeled. I do NOT want to have H. golamcoiana as a separate species on my list if it is the same as another I have. I have not grown it out to flower, but I will.
I will try to get more light on this issue with David Liddle. In the meantime...I will have to give a stern talking to my fingers!
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