Re: Small Aroids

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1997.10.28 at 06:08:14(1535) Donna: I concur. I consulted with Mike Grayum at beer on Friday and that was his judgement. Tom +More > > Tom & Dewey, > I believe the correct spelling should be Anthurium besseae, in honor of Libby > Besse. > Donna > > In a message dated 97-10-24 17:36:01 EDT, you write: > > << Subj: Re: Small Aroids > Date: 97-10-24 17:36:01 EDT > From: croat@mobot.org (Tom Croat) > To: aroid-l@mobot.org > CC: selbyhort@aol.com (Donna Atwoo) > > >Dewey: This is an unpublished name and I will get back to the list > about the correct spelling (I have to consult the rules) but I just > wanted to say that this plant which I am sure that you have seen at > Selby has dramatically changed in the past year. For years it was > dwarfed (Donna Atwood thinks it was due to an overdose of something) but > when I saw it recently it was many times larger, with leaf blades to ca > 25 cm long. I am sure glad I was patient on this new species! > By the way if we really want to talk about small aroids we do > have to consider Lemna. While currently in the Lemnaceae molecular work > has shown that group to be practically inseparable from Pistia and the > Kew group will be proposing it to be subsumed within the Aroideae as a > close relative of Pistia. > Tom > > > > > Her's a couple more very small aroids... Anthurium bessei can be seen at: > > and Caladium > > humboldtii var. Marcel.. This is one of the prettiest.. and it only gets > > about an inch or two high!!!! > > Dewey > > > > Dewey E. Fisk, Plant Nut > > THE PHILODENDRON PHREAQUE > > Your Source for Tropical Araceae > > >> > > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

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