Ornithogalum gifbergense

[LucS]

The right name is O. giftbergensis without the "s".
See my posting earlier !

[mark smyth]

Thanks Luc.

Alberto says it's name should be Ornithogallum ciliiferum but there is only one reference by name on the internet

Luc can you you tell us more about this plant?

[Maggi Young]

The right name is O. giftbergensis without the "s".
See my posting earlier !

 Thanks, Luc...... but I still can't find anything! 

[LucS]

Thanks Luc.

Alberto says it's name should be Ornithogallum ciliiferum but there is only one reference by name on the internet

Luc can you you tell us more about this plant?

I obtained this plant from Mike Salmon some 15 years ago.
I can't tell you more than it is a S. African monocot, nearly evergreen and half-hardy.
Maybe the botanists changed its name since ?

[David Nicholson]

Source; Kew Checklist. The plant is possibly Ornithogalum gifbergense a synonym of O. ciliiferum.

See http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?accepted_id=283099&repSynonym_id=-9998&name_id=283091&status=false

[mark smyth]

Thanks for the correct spelling Ornithogalum gifbergense and masses of hits on Google
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Ornithogalum+gifbergense&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=null&oq=ornithogalum+GIFBERGENSE

[Maggi Young]

Well, some google hits, but none terribly illuminating!

This from the PBS' Mary Sue Ittner in 2003 is the most informative I've found so far... http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2003-February/012599.html
(the rest are mostly  of the : for X see Y, for Y see X variety.  beloved of dodgy encyclopaedias)



Ornithogalum gifbergense U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies
=Ornithogalum ciliiferum U.Müll.-Doblies & D.Müll.-Doblies (1996)
Ecology and distribution
South. Afr. : perennial-Geophyte- Ht up to 0.25 m.in states: NC, WC  ... is about as good as it seems to get! 
 

[Lesley Cox]

Needless-to-say it's not on our Bio Index but I think I can live withoput it anyway.

[fermi de Sousa]

Nah, Lesley, I think he's just kidding us, by asking if WE want to pay for the WRA !

The "cost" of a WRA is the time to fill out an 8 page document and do all the research needed to prove that the plant won't become a weed. If the submission is accepted it can still take years for the name to appear on ICON. And, no, O. ciliiferum isn't on ICON either. So if we want it we'll have to do a WRA.
In the meantime we'll enjoy the pics on the Forum.
cheers
fermi