New Cactus Lexicon new edition

It would seem that the new edition of the 'New Cactus Lexicon' is close to being completely available.
Here is a link to the illustrations volume: http://www.exoticplantbooks.com/detail/?product_id=913
(which is the 2nd part of the two volume book).

On the author's webpage for this book, it states that the text volume (volume 1 of the 2 volume edition) is soon to follow.

I grabbed it when it was first published just a couple of months ago to make sure I got it before it went out of print again! Lots of great photos, and upcoming revisions (to be detailed in the text volume) are also included. Can't wait for the Vol 1 to come out!

Thanks for the update!

May have to get one of these copies.

I go the picture volume, which in itself is pretty nice. I should check if the textbook is out, because while the picture book by itself is very useful, the accompanying text would make it even more so.

agreed

Has anyone recieved thier New Cactus Lexicon Yet?
If so, I'd like to ask you to look up something for us all.
Which is the accepted epithet now? Ferocactus cylindraceus? Or, Ferocactus acanthodes?
And does it give a reason for the change?
Thank you.

Hi Xenomorph,

I only have the picture volume. The text volume is still not quite out I think.

I saw a discussion on this on a different forum let me go check that out and report back.

Here is the piece of text regarding the issue that someone found on a different forum. Ferocactus acanthodes it is:

[Found the tiny little article in Cactus Explorers:

(#6, page 25)

"A proposal to reject the name Echinocactus(&
Ferocactus) acanthodes submitted in 2011 has now
been voted upon and is not recommended by 16
votes to 1 with 2 abstentions. In Lindsay's 1955
thesis on Ferocactus, eventually published in 1996,
he neotypified E. acanthodes with the holotype of E.
cylindraceus, thereby making them identical, and
the earliest epithet applies.
So this means that the correct name for this
plant is Ferocactus acanthodes, not F. cylindraceus as
proposed by Nigel Taylor. His argument was
considered to be insufficient to justify overturning
the Lindsay neotypification. Roy Mottram
Reference
Applequist, W. L. (2012)Report of the
Nomenclature Committee for vascular plants: 64:
2021 Proposal to reject Echinocactus acanthodes Lem.
(Cactaceae) by Hodgson & al. in Taxon 60: 910.
2011. Taxon 61(5): 1113. International Association
for Plant Taxonomy, Bratislava."]

That's what I saw too, and was wondering if it will be listed in The New Lexicon as F. acanthodes. But I guess we will see in due time. Thank you.

In the new edition of the picture volume it is still listed as cylindraceus.
I wonder if that came out before this vote.

It "might" have been printed before the vote or "might" not have. The vote was reported in the "The Cactus Explorer ISSN 2048-0482 Number 6 November 2012" edition.