Talk:Echinopsis oxygona

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why merged ?

E. oxygona and E. eyriesii are different species, see: d:Q142776 and d:Q140758 --2003:F3:6F05:3971:8D5F:93EE:67C7:A559 (talk) 11:11, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The entries in Wikidata are for names, not species. See the long list of synonyms in the Plants of the World Online entry, which is what we use to determine species. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Description issues

Older sources separate a number of species of Echinopsis that are now regarded as synonymous. The distinctions were made based on characters that do not match molecular studies. This causes problems in sourcing descriptions. For example, Anderson (2001) says that E. oxygona has radial spines to 2.5 cm long, whereas E. eyriesii has very short spines. He also describes E. tubiflora separately. The description in this version applies only to plants treated as E. oxygona distinct from E. eyriesii. Peter coxhead (talk) 16:26, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've now re-written the description so that it applies to plants described as E. eyriesii and those described as E. oxygona. Peter coxhead (talk) 17:02, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]