Acorus tatorinowii ???

From: Matyas Buzgo <buzgo at systbot.unizh.ch> on 1997.10.29 at 15:20:46(1553) Dear Mike, Dear James Two species of Acorus are accepted: A. calamus and A. gramineus (Röst 1978). In A. calamus three caryotypes are distinguished (Wulf 1954): The diploid form Acorus calamus var. americanus from N-America and Siberia; the sterile, triploid A. calamus var. calamus (syn. vulgaris) spreading from Europe to temperate India (Wulf 1954) ; A. calamus var. angustatus is found in E-SE-Asia and it differs by tetraploidy. Morphological differences occur between caryotypes as well as within caryotypes (Bown 1987, pers. observation). Further, the taxa of Acorus differ slightly in the composition of secondary metabolites, especially the occurrence of b-asarone in diploid races (Röst 1978, Evstatieva et al. 1996). +More >From paleontology, Acorus heeri is recorded in N-America. (Dilcher & Daghlian 1977, Crepet 1978, Bown 1987). If you have any reference for A. tatorinowii, please tell us Thanks ___*___ |___| | ( 0 0 )* -----oooO (_) oooO--------------------- Matyas Buzgo Institute for Systematic Botany of the University of Zurich Zollikerstr. 107 buzgo@systbot.unizh.ch CH-8008 Zurich Ph: +41-1 385 44 32 Switzerland Fax: +41-1 385 44 03 http://www.unizh.ch/~buzgo

From: Krzysztof Kozminski <kk at netgate.net> on 1997.10.30 at 03:00:34(1556) On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matyas Buzgo wrote: > > If you have any reference for A. tatorinowii, please tell us You can't find it unless you speak Polish :-) I never heard of A. tatorinowii, but the species name sounded similar to Polish name for A.calamus, except appeared misspelled (the word is tatarak), so I fired up AltaVista in search for 'tatarinowii' which seemed more correct, and guess what - 23 hits. See, e.g.: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/TROPICOS/China/China1/N02100024.html I must be one lucky punk today, since there appears to be no reason for the similarity of names :-) Krzysztof Kozminski +More kk@netgate.net http://www.netgate.net/~kk/

From: grsjr at juno.com (George R Stilwell, Jr.) on 1997.10.30 at 22:42:31(1564) Matyas and Krzysztof, A. tatarinowii Schott is listed in the AEG Arisaema species list which can be seen on Roy Herold's Arisaema page . +More Unfortunately, it is not in any of the keys we have from all parts of the world. And, I find neither a synonym for it nor it as a synonym for another species. Not much information I'm sorry to say. If you have a real need to know, I can post the Arisaema-L to see what the experts have to say. Ray

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