Nomenclatural validities

From: "Ron Iles" roniles at eircom.net> on 2002.03.11 at 20:32:40(8278) Dear Ben, Last month it was suggested that you might like to write an article on your Aroid DNA work for either the quarterly IAS Newsletter or the annual Aroideana. I am no longer the Editor of the Newsletter which is limited to 12 pages/issue,maybe not much more than 3000 words which includes News, Reports, as well as articles, with photos & graphics. Prior to my resignation a superabundance of article material was "available" in fact >12,000 words plus 35 photos. I understand Newsletter 2002 (1) is now already nearing its way to the Printers. I am now in the final handover to the new Editors. They will presumably soon be in the position to prioritise the mass of material for future use, hopefully with yours & other kind people who had already notionally contracted with me. When would you like those of us who are working on & culturing Spathiphyllum to begin sending you leaves, & will you take cultivars as well please? Because the "pedigrees" of the >160 "named" cultivars seem largely obscure, I feel it might be helpful to have as much information as possible on their DNA? Even though it may be primitive, some kind of "Stud Book" for Spathiphyllum cultivars might then be possible? Most of the known world SPECIES have been located, a surprising number of small plants of them are here or in cultivation at other now known loci, & leaves can be sent as time permits. I have here some species with the same "names" which may be distinct, some with different names which may be the same species or close, & species which have names which seem to have no nomenclatural validity. On occasions of course this may be due to the labels in collections not being padlocked to the plants. And what "cultivars" are called often seems to depend on the romantic imaginations or/and commercial exigencies of their previous "owner(s)". Long may your DNA work uphold all our quests for unequivocal legitimacy. R. B. Iles +More ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list AROID-L" Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 3:56 PM Subject: Alocasia lowii DNA THanks Julius for the likely cv status of A. Tigrina Superba Now I have a more difficult one I suppose By the way, I might do a write up of the total for the Newsletter of for Aroidea(?) although I am not a member of either of them. Anyway, from the leaves provided by Denis from Silver Krome Gardens, I measured for Alocasia lowii Veitchii 22.3 pg and for A lowii Grandis 18.4 pg So in my opinion they are different species. Any comment would be welcome Ben J.M.Zonneveld Clusius lab pobox 9505 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands mintemp-16C(5F) Zonneveld@RULbim.LeidenUniv.NL Fax: 31-71-5274999

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