Ochlospecies 2nd try!

[Dr. Janice Haldeman]

Of course this came from our LIBRARY not LIGRARY, and some message was cut
off! Sorry, I'm new at this.

Hi Jan--

This looks like the book they have been referring to.
It is held in only three libraries, but we could certainly request it
on ILL:

Chorology, taxonomy & ecology of the floras of Africa and Madagascar.
CR Huxley, JM Lock, & DF Cutler. 1999. ISBN 1 900347 65 2.   $78.00

Summary:

This book includes papers and posters presented during the Frank White
Memorial Symposium, Oxford University, 1996. contents:
Scientific achievements of Frank White, Frank White and the development
of African Chorology, A new Regional Centre of
Endemism in Africa, Numerical analyses of African plant distribution
patterns, Parallels between White's photochoria and avian
zoochoria in tropical Africa, Vegetation mapping and classification in
Madagascar (using GIS), Diversity and phytogeographical
affinities of Inselberg vegetation in tropical Afrca and Madagascar,
Phytogeography, systematics and diversification of African
Moraceae compared with those of other Tropical areas, Plant variation,
phylogeny and systematics, Ochlospecies concept,
Biodiversity study in Dja Fauna Reserve (Cameroon): using the Transect
Method, Aspects of fire in tropical African vegetation,
Ecology of wetter Miombo woodlands of NE Zambia and a review of the
Ndola demonstration plots, Disturbance, pioneers and the
Afromontane Archipelago, Dry woodlands, their utilisation and
conservation, Gorillas and their food plants in the Lope reserve,
Gabon. 244 pp., illustrated with line figures, B&W photos, and graphs.
paperback.

The Greek prefix OKLOS refers to crowd, or overcrowding...


The Oxford English Dictionary has a short entry on
"ochlospecies" that cites Frank Wright's 1962 article
in a book edited by Nichols "Taxonomy and Geography"
(page 79) "such species cannot be satisfactorily subdivided,
and could conveniently be distingushed from monotypic and
polytypic species by calling them 'ochlospecies.'

AND...  "species showing a complex reticulate pattern of variation"
(1967)

AND...  "Licania heteromorphia is a good example of an
ochlospecies"  from Flora Neotropica IX (1972) page 109

Fred G.