New(?) species

[FrankRC]

Don't blame the tool Brucher, blame the workmen using it.

There is huge merit in DNA studies but they should be replicated using different parts of the genome and chloroplast DNA, not just one sequence from one area, especially in plants that can hybridise or are possibly recently diverged. Its results should also be interpreted alongside other evidence, not completely excluding it, imho.

You are correct. Without a cross section of natural plants from across the range of a species, with samples taken in situ, and without a comprehensive analysis, DNA studies cannot be done correctly. The results will always be skewed.

 

[werner.freitag]

Thats natural spreeding within a species couse of different locations. You see it in so many other paph species. If this is a new species we need a general discussion about, if every local population should be described as a separat species/var./form whatever or If we accept that there is just natural spreeding.
Or revise the whole Thing with DNA sequencing like Brucher mentioned. Problem is that most populations from which the description was made are now destroyed.

I totally agree with Martin