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  Re: Acorus not an Aroid? was Source for Philodendrons
From: "Scott Lucas" htbg at ilhawaii.net> on 2001.06.01 at 20:40:50(6674)
Per D.J. Mabberley ("The Plant Book")

Acorus is now Acoraceae.... "formerly included in Araceae but habit and
other morphological as well as molecular features exclude it; it has been
argued that the family is 'basal' to the Monocots in being intermediate
between several orders, having similarities with Araceae & Typhaceae but the
presence of oil idioblasts & absence of raphides reminiscent of
Zingiberaceae though it is outstanding in its well-developed perisperm
devoid of starch."

Scott

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