The more I add to the site and the more I try to make it accurate, I'm sometimes forced to do things that are untidy simply because taxonomy is very untidy!
Here is the latest example:
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Notocactus
We also have:
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Sulcorebutia
and
http://www.cactiguide.com/cactus/?genus=Ancistrocactus
I had no other choice!
I had no other choice!
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
Re: I had no other choice!
i would say a nightmare rather than untidydaiv wrote:The more I add to the site and the more I try to make it accurate, I'm sometimes forced to do things that are untidy simply because taxonomy is very untidy!
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i sometimes get the feeling that they just dumped everything the couldn't bother to look at under Rebutia neocumingii
example
Rebutia neocumingii
![Image](http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/527_P1190037_1.jpg)
Rebutia neocumingii
![Image](http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/527_P1190491_1.jpg)
incurable cactoholic
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
growing rebutia's with a mix of others.
Ian,iann wrote:How is this working? I can see that it is useful to have pictures filed under names like these, but shouldn't they appear under their lumped names in the default TCF taxonomy?
Doesn't The Cactus Family list Parodia roeolutea? I guess not. I always thought it did.
Absolutely, it is listed as such in Anderson's TCF. And that change is reflected here:
http://www.cactiguide.com/taxonomy_comp ... e_key=2372
Did you not notice this feature? There is a link on each page showing alternate taxonomies. Here is where you find the link:
![Image](http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/2_link_to_alternate_1.jpg)
Currently only two systems are listed, but more on the way.
Default CactiGuide.com taxonomy hasn't been TCF for well over a year now.
As this page illustrates, it varies by more than 10% from TCF:
http://www.cactiguide.com/compare_publications/
But in case others have read this page in the past and not recently, much has changed especially starting in the 3rd paragraph down:
http://www.cactiguide.com/nomenclature/
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
Oh, I should clarify - I follow Anderson's TCF system whenever I can which is why it varies by 11% while the NCL is over 30% different.
As time goes on, the gap will only widen, however. Backeberg is going to wreak havoc on my sanity, but I'm determined to get through it!
As time goes on, the gap will only widen, however. Backeberg is going to wreak havoc on my sanity, but I'm determined to get through it!
All Cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are Cacti
Not that I really know what is going on in this thread, but I thought it definitely amusing that the first photo Hob brought as Rebutia neocumingii has a label that says Weingartia lanata!!!
I really admire the rigorous taxonomic data here, even though it is really not something that I can enjoy the fine points of...
Shmuel
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I really admire the rigorous taxonomic data here, even though it is really not something that I can enjoy the fine points of...
Shmuel
Amazing plants, amazing form, amazing flowers...
Amazing cacti!
Amazing cacti!