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Re: Acorus tatorinowii ???

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
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