A polyschistum (taxonomy)

From: pascal vieu p_vieu at yahoo.fr> on 2002.08.27 at 14:43:51(9295) Dear all, There are only two names which look similar : Anthurium polystictum Sodiro 1905 (Ecuador) Anthurium polyschistum R.E.Schult. & Idrobo 1959 (South America, common in Ecuador) The ultimate (in my opinion) resources for the plant names is the IPNI (http://www.ipni.org/index.html), although the Genus Anthurium is much more detailed in aroid.org (the synonymy seems rather complete) Best regards, Pascal Vieu +More Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest 29200 BREST France 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 ----------------------------- Eugene Hoh Sydney, Australia hohe@symphony.net.au ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran?ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com

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