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RE: Need Anthurium anatomy lesson

From: Tom Croat Thomas.Croat at mobot.org> on 2001.07.23 at 22:45:12(7096)
Title: RE: Need Anthurium anatomy lesson
Don:
I couldn't make these out very well but I assume that all the bumps are actually pistils, not stamens.
Tom
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 5:34 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L
Subject: Need Anthurium anatomy lesson
Here is a link to a photo of the spadix of my flowering Anthurium clarinervium:
http://www.execpc.com/~llmen/aclar2.jpg
I realize that this species is supposed to apomictic, but could
someone give me a brief anatomy lesson here? I can visualize white
bumps (A), yellowish bumps (B), and brownish bumps (C). I imagine
that some of these are male flowers, but are these all male, in
varying degrees of maturation? Are the male and female flowers
distributed evenly along the spadix?
Thanks,
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mailto:llmen@execpc.com

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