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Re: Yet more smallest Aroids

From: "Peter Boyce" <P.Boyce at lion.rbgkew.org.uk> on 1997.10.28 at 14:36:49(1536)
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:46:15 -0500
Reply-to: aroid-l@mobot.org
To: p.boyce@lion.rbgkew.org.uk
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Subject: Re: Yet more smallest Aroids
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Peter Boyce wrote:
> How about good ol' Bucephalandra motleyana and B. catherineae? Then
> there's Homalomena minutissima. The first time I encountered this is
> was growing on a huge sandstone boulder in a stream in Brunei. At
> first I thought it to be a foliaceous moss until I found the
> inflorescences. The largest plants are less than 2 cm high. The
> spathe 2 - 3 mm long. Now that's small!
Dear Pete,
Wow... that's really small. I think this Homalomena is the smallest of
all aroids... even smaller than Ambrosinia. It must to be pollinated by
microbes!!! :-)
Best wishes,
Eduardo.
Eduardo
Now THERE'S a PhD project!!!
Pete
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