Re: Aroid Seeds (Berries) for my study of Seed Lipid Acids

From: "Julius Boos" ju-bo at email.msn.com> on 2001.10.30 at 16:22:40(7715) ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list AROID-L Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 4:20 PM Subject: Aroid Seeds (Berries) for my study of Seed Lipid Acids +More >>Dear Aroidlers,<< Hello Vic and all my other web-friends, I guess this is an appeal on Vic`s behalf, there are a few aroids that he lists below that I believe we may be able to assist hiom with if I perhaps 'jog' some memories! Anaphyllum ( an Indian Lasioid) became fairly 'common a few years ago, Fairchild distributed seed, and I have seen it in several collections between Miami and WPB, it bears fruit readly, so I will now appeal to anyone who has this in fruit to contact me OR Vic and do your very best to get these fruit to him, I can and will forward ant material you may send to me on up to Vic if you don`t have or can`t find his address when you have material to send! Another that should not be TOO hard to hand-pollenate and get fruit on is Gonaotopus, we discussed this as a weed a short time ago on this L. Anyone out there doing anything with the genus Caladium?? What species do you now have seed of, Vic? My guess would be C. bicolor?? What species of Syngonium do you have seeds of, Vic?? Anyhow, lets all pull together and see how many of these rarer genera we can get seeds of, I kniow that several herbariums may be able to assit f theylook in their dried collections! Cheers, Julius Boos, WPB, Florida At this stage in my study of the acids of the seed lipids of Aroids, I have analyzed at least one species of each of 68 genera of the about 104 total genera in the family Araceae. The data are intended to be used as an additional character in phylogenetic analyses of the family. Already one very unusual acid has been found as a major component in a few genera. This acid has never before been reported from any natural source. I require only 4 - 5 seeds for a single determination. While I request seeds, I prefer to receive berries for a similar study on berry tissues, which because of their color or odor or taste, may act as dispersal vector attractants. Below is a list of genera from which I still need seeds (berries). Those genera marked with an asterisk, one species has already been analyzed but more examples are needed. Seeds (berries) can preferably come from freshly collected fruiting heads, or from dried specimens (preferably not over 80 years old) on Herbarium sheets. Aglaodorum..................Gearum..........................Pothoidium Alloschemone...............Gonatopus......................Protarum Amydrium.....................Hapaline.........................Pycnospatha Anaphyllopsis...............Heteroaridum...................Rhaphidophora Anaphyllum...................Holochlamys...................Scindapus Aridarum.......................Hottarum.........................Steudnera Bognera........................Lasimorpha.....................Stylochaeton Bucephalandra...............Lazarum.........................Syngonium* Caladium*......................Mangonia.......................Ulearum Carlephyton...................Pedicellarum...................Zamioculcas Colletogyne...................Phymatarum....................Zomicarpa Eminium*......................Piptospatha.....................Zomicarpella Furtodoa.......................Podolasia Symplocarpus* (the 2 Japanese species) Typhonium* (Any species except giganteum or trilobatum) Please help if you can. I am now in my 77th year and have been carrying on this study for eight years -- would like to see it completed in my lifetime. Thanks, Vic Dr. Victor G. Soukup Herbarium University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006 Victor G. Soukup Herbarium Department of Biological Sciences University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006<<

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