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polyschistum / polystichum
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From: "Eugene Hoh" hohe at symphony.net.au> on 2002.08.27 at 08:48:26(9294)
hi tsuh yang,
as far as I know , it really is 'polyschistum'... I'm guessing (via a
dictionary - I'm not a classical scholar) that the name comes from
classical Greek 'polu-' (many) and 'skhistos' (divided), perhaps
referring to the divided leaves.
Meanwhile there is also Polystichum, the genus name of the shield fern /
Christmas fern which you might be familiar with? (I once grew, and
killed, one of those - about the same time as I did the same to the poor
Anth. polyschistum.)
cheers
Eugene
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Eugene Hoh
Sydney, Australia
hohe@symphony.net.au
Piabinha@aol.com wrote:
> hello eugene and don,
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> i thought it was Anthurium polystichum, NOT polyschistum???
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> --
> tsuh yang CHEN in nyc
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From: MossyTrail at cs.com on 2002.08.27 at 17:51:12(9298)
In a message dated 8/27/2002 5:14:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
hohe@symphony.net.au writes:
> Meanwhile there is also Polystichum, the genus name of the shield fern /
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> Christmas fern which you might be familiar with?
Which, incidentally, was a cause of spelling confusion for me. P. munitum is
the Pacific Northwest sword fern. "Munitum" refers to fortifications (as in
munitions), and in this case indicates the cilia along the leaflet edges.
But for several years, my mind actually "saw" it as minutum, meaning tiny.
Jason Hernandez
Naturalist-at-Large
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