Talk:Nymania

Sources of confusion

At the time of my writing this, the article is a redirection to the article on Phyllanthus. As I found it when I was looking up Nymania capensis, this was a very confusing, and even more so when I looked it up in the plant list, in which there were two entries under "Nymania". Nymania capensis was given as "unresolved", whereas "Nymania insignis" was given as a synonym for a species of Phyllanthus. Obviously the two Nymania species are unrelated, in different families at least, so the redirection is inappropriate as it stands. I shall change this as soon as I reasonably can, but I invite any botanist (which I am not) either to assist or to forestall me. JonRichfield (talk) 09:03, 8 September 2012 (UTC)

Actually, there are two generic names called "Nymania", Nymania K.Schum. (Euphorbiaceae) and Nymania Lindb. (Meliaceae). Only the latter is valid (I think). In either case, I don't think anyone places both species in the same genus. --Stemonitis (talk) 10:46, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Well OK, that gells with what I understood from what I read (and as I have said on occasion, I am no botanist), but when I see two genera with the same name, I am inclined to confute them. Whoever wrote the original Nymania article fell into the same trap and confused me utterly, because the plants seemed to be unrelated, but the article spoke as if they were congeneric. In the light of what you say, I assume that Nyman simply had two admirers who did not know of each other's work. As I hint at in what I wrote, it is quite likely that N. capensis will soon be changing both its family and its generic name -- I have no idea why the name assigned by Thunberg was changed. Watch this space! JonRichfield (talk) 15:11, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Please explain deletions

Stemonitis, you deleted all but one of the pictures on the grounds of "cleanup". Please explain. Every one of them showed a different aspect of the plant. Each could be of value to someone unfamiliar with the plant to whom a long shot of a shrub alongside a road conveyed very little. If you have no special explanation, I shall be replacing them at my convenience. Furthermore, if I find a shot of the flower, I shall add that. (They weren't flowering when I took my photos. JonRichfield (talk) 20:17, 19 October 2012 (UTC)