Aroid Literature
Aroideana
Aroideana is an illustrated annual devoted to information about the family Araceae and published by the International Aroid Society, Inc.
Aroideana is available as a benefit of membership in the International Aroid Society. Back issues of Aroideana are also available. For more information, please click here.
IAS Newsletter
The IAS Newsletter is a quarterly publication of the International Aroid Society with short pieces relating to aroid cultivation and research, as well as society news.
The IAS Newsletter is available as a benefit of membership in the International Aroid Society. Back issues of the newsletter are also available online to members only.
Aroid books: Plants of the Arum
Family by Deni Bown
Originally published in 1988 as the first truly comprehensive review
of one of the largest and most popular plant families, Aroids:
Plants of the Arum Family was enthusiastically welcomed by botanists
and horticulturists alike for its attention to scientific detail and
delightful writing style. Now in this completely updated second edition,
we learn of discoveries made in the last decade as the family has
grown from about 2500 species to nearer 3200. Aroids: Plants of
the Arum Family by Deni Bown is available from the International
Aroid Society for $35.00 which includes shipping within the USA. For
more details, please click here.
Aroid
CD-ROM: Tales
of Titans by Darryl Saffer
 The
Amorphophallus titanum has made headlines in North America
since the first flowering in 1937 at The New York Botanical Garden.
"Tales of Titans" CD-ROM traces the titan arum from its discovery
in the jungles of Sumatra to the thirteen bloomings in North America.
This history comes to life with stories, photographs, and video,
including amazing time lapse sequences. This exciting new CD-ROM
is available from the International Aroid Society for $25.00 which
includes shipping within the USA. For more details, please click
here.
 Aglaonema Growers' Notebook by Dr. Roy N. Jervis
This fascinating book, which has been out of print for over 20 years, is considered by many to be a classic reference on Aglaonema by the late Dr. Roy Jervis. He wrote this in the Epilogue of the 1980 edition:
"This personal notebook on Aglaonemas has been a fun project and is being shared in the hope that it will help other Aglaonema growers to identify their plants. Maybe it will encourage others to increase their collections when they see the choices now available. Maybe, too, it will encourage growers to try new cultivars augmenting the 10 or 12 plants that are so common..."
This Adobe Portable Document File edition is being made available to IAS Members as a benefit of membership.
History and Current Status of Systematic Research with Araceae
by Dr. Thomas B. Croat
The history of systematic work with Araceae has been previously covered by Nicolson (1987b), and was the subject of a chapter in the Genera of Araceae by Mayo, Bogner & Boyce (1997) and in Curtis's Botanical Magazine new series (Mayo et al., 1995). In addition to covering many of the principal players in the field of aroid research, Nicolson's paper dealt with the evolution of family concepts and gave a comparison of the then current modern systems of classification.
The papers by Mayo, Bogner and Boyce were more comprehensive in scope than that of Nicolson but still did not cover in great detail many of the participants in Araceae research. In contrast, this paper will cover all systematic and floristic work that deals with Araceae which is known to me... For the complete article, please click here.
Aroid books:
The
Genera of Araceae by S. J. Mayo, J. Bogner and P.
C. Boyce Kew: Royal Botanic Gardens, 1997
This book is the first complete
taxonomic treatment in English of the Araceae, a large plant family
of 105 genera and over 3,300 species. The aroids are very diverse
in the humid tropics and include many of the world's most popular
ornamental plants. Every genus is described and illustrated with one
or more plates of original line drawings by the renowned botanical
artist Eleanor Catherine, as well as range maps and 94 colour photos.
There are general chapters on many topics, including economic botany,
phylogenetic relationships, fossils, cultivation and detailed reviews
of anatomy (by J. C. French) and chemistry (by R. Hegnauer). xii +
370pp. 296 x 213mm. Hard cover ISBN 1 900347 22 9. The Genera of
Araceae is available directly from Kew at www.kewbooks.com.
Aroid books:
The Genus Arum by
Peter Boyce
The genus Arum consists of 25 species of tuberous plants. Many "bulb" and alpine enthusiasts grow a couple of species of Arum, usually the showy A. creticum and A. dioscoridis; and the widespread A. maculatum is well known. There are, however, many species which are practically unknown except to a few enthusiasts, and it is one of the aims of this book to bring these attractive and interesting species to the attention of a wider audience. Building on recent cultivation, pollen, cytology and chemistry research, this reference work should increase understanding of this genus. Hardback | 176 pages | The Stationery Office Books | 1993 ISBN 0112500854. This work is currently out of print.
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