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jamie-aa | knotweed family (Family Polygonaceae) |
missing* × Reyllopia conollyana |
Nov. 11, 2023 00:20:04 +0000 | t_e_d |
Done. |
It's definitely an error on their behalf. It's said that the hybrid is known to occur naturally in Great Britain since 1986 and that it was subsequently artificially hybridized. I added the taxon so people can identify the plant but I will add the relationships when POWO changes its status.
@jamie-aa Let us know when they respond.
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304185805/http://www.archive.bsbi.org.uk/Wats23p539.pdf
taxon looks good (though the genus name isn't capitalised on the species), cheers - not sure if it's possible to set it as the 'successor' taxon to the old one like with merges, but it never had any observations anyway https://www.inaturalist.org/identifications?taxon_id=429265¤t=any so if it's not it doesn't really matter too much
did get a reply earlier today --
The parents are not native so it cannot be a natural hybrid. It may be a spontaneous hybrid but that happens in gardens as well. So it is artificial in that humans brought the parents together outside their native range.
I assumed 'artificial hybrid' meant 'cultivated hybrid' rather than something so wide - so whilst it's not an error that it's listed as an 'artificial hybrid', that doesn't mean that it cannot occur 'naturally' - since Japanese Knotweed is slightly frowned upon in cultivation these days I doubt it's deliberately been planted anywhere.
perhaps worth making a trip to Railway Fields some time next year and trying to find the original - the only open photos of it I can find are the low-res ones on the Belgian Aliens site. it's a very rare taxon so might sit empty for a while if nobody else does!
It seems that POWO has been updated.
I have added the taxon framework relationship : https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_framework_relationships/749152
@jamie-aa : artificial hybrid in POWO means that it's not a naturally occurring hybrid. It doesn't mean that it's a cultivated hybrid.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77098190-1 - Fallopia baldschuanica (mile-a-minute, Russian-vine) × Reynoutria japonica (Japanese knotweed) = × Reyllopia conollyana (Haringey knotweed, railway-yard knotweed)
Should be in Subfamily Polygonoideae -> Tribe Polygoneae -> Subtribe Reynoutriinae like both parent genuses.
I add an asterisk because it's already on iNat as an inactive taxon under the old name Fallopia × conollyana https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/429265-Fallopia---conollyana and with both common names in place (though the Haringey one should probably be prioritised in the UK).
Known as a naturally occuring hybrid e.g https://alienplantsbelgium.myspecies.info/species-list/%C3%97reyllopia-conollyana