Typhonium specimens again

From: James Waddick jwaddick at kc.rr.com> on 2003.02.05 at 18:36:37(9928) Dear Susanne and Petra; A few weeks ago there was discussion of T. divericatum and its subsequent ID as T. blumei. I finally went to the new Typhonium /IAS site as recently revised by Wilbert where T. divericatum is assigned to T. roxburghii - NOT blumei. +More The accompanying picture are not terribly convincing, but jumping to Alan Galloway's pages and photos. I wonder if the ID is incorrect and the plants from me are in fact T. roxburgii. Alan- Any thought ? http://www4.ncsu.edu/%7Ealan/plants/aroids/typhoniums/blumei/ http://www4.ncsu.edu/%7Ealan/plants/aroids/typhoniums/blumei/ Want to take another look? I'll refrain until bloom this summer. Curious. Best Jim W. -- Dr. James W. Waddick 8871 NW Brostrom Rd. Kansas City Missouri 64152-2711 USA Ph. 816-746-1949 E-fax 419-781-8594 Zone 5 Record low -23F Summer 100F +

From: "Eduardo Goncalves" edggon at hotmail.com> on 2003.02.05 at 23:51:07(9931) Dear Alan and Jim, Now I have both species (T. roxburghii and T. blumei) flowering regularly here and I have found differences. There is a good comparative picture in an article available in the net featuring T. roxburghii and T. blumei. The URL is: , Here follows the key: 1. Sterile flowers upcurved; leaf blades usually longer than broad ... ........................................................... T. blumei 1. Sterile flowers spreading and slightly decurved; leaf blades mostly as broad as long .............. T. roxburghii My plants can be perfectly separated by this key. I have also noted that T. roxburghii is a little more robust than T. blumei when they are growing under the same conditions (substrate, temperature, etc). By the way, yes, they use T. divaricatum as synonim of T. blumei in the quoted article. Very best wishes, Eduardo. +More Reply-To: aroid-l@lists.ncsu.edu To: , "Susanne Renner" , CC: , Subject: Re: [aroid-l] Typhonium specimens again Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:43:45 -0500 Jim and others, I must admit I had not compared the pics of T. blumei and roxburghii that closely until this message. What I'ld like to do is wait until this summer and get better quality photos of both these species and then decide. Jim, if I recall correctly, you sent me some tubers of T. geraldii, which did turn out to be T. roxburghii -- I would have to recheck my notes to confirm this. Alan _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pageþatures/junkmail

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