Re: Lemna and other duckweeds

From: Aroideae at aol.com on 2000.06.23 at 23:47:34(4897) I'm another one who very much enjoyed eduardo's very informative posting! i'm hungry for more. now, I cannot resist asking!! What is Wolffia microspopica? +More Lynn Hannon <<< under the bed and say that in the revised edition of Aroids - Plants of the Arum Family (to be published in September) I treat duckweeds as aroids and explain (in layperson's terms but with scientific references) the whys and wherefores of this fascinating taxonomic change. Thank you, Eduardo, for risking life and limb in giving us your lucid comments on the subject. I have always thought that the Araceae is the most mind-boggling family of plants on this planet, and now that it embraces the gigantic Amorphophallus titanum and miniscule Wolffia microscopica, no one can question it - unless to wonder if they are from another planet after all! Deni Bown (lurker) >>

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