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  [Aroid-l] Anthurium watermaliense Hort. ex L.H. Bailey & Nash
From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2008.11.25 at 02:59:06
I need some help from the Anthuriumexperts on Aroid l.

I have been going through many of the pages on my ExoticRainforestwebsite trying to update pages and make sure the explanations are bothscientifically accurate and clear.  I recently got around to Anthuriumwatermaliense and one of the first things I noticed that I had neverrealized before was the name!  The name is Anthurium watermalienseHort. Ex. L.H. Bailey and Nash.    What grabbed my attention this timewas the "Hort." and the
"Ex." whichindicates a horticultural name that was formerly considered ascientific name.

As a result I went to the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) http://www.ipni.org/index.html  and found the name Anthuriumwatermaliense does not exist on that site  So I went again for thethird or fourth time and reread Dr. Croat's description in his Annalsof the Missouri Botanical Garden 1983, Volume 70, #2.  Dr. Croatexplains in that text that the name Anthurium watermaliense wasoriginally a horticultural name (Hort.) and  was published in 1922 byLiberty Hyde Bailey Jr. (1858-1954) in his Cyclopedia of AmericanHorticulture.  It did not appear the name Anthurium watermaliense hadever been officially published to science but only in horticulturalliterature.

Then I found on a 2005 Aroid l the following post from Dr. Croat, "Ihave placed this in Section Pachyneurium owing to its involutevernation but it is an unusual member of that group for sure.   I haveoften wondered if it might not be itself of hybrid origin."   Dr.Croat then continued, "There are about a half dozen of thesecordate odd balls, A. standlyi, A. schottii, etc.  Some are quiteattractive."   Involute vernation refers to the way the margins(edges) of a new leaf blade are rolled inward on both margins as itbegins to emerge from the cataphylls.

Since Dr. Croat is currently in Ecuador until near the end of the thirdweek of December I would love some input from those of you who haveoften provided accurate information before and are truly Anthuriumexperts to be certain Anthurium watermaliense is not considered aspecies. 

You can read what I've learned so far here:

http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Anthurium%20watermaliense%20pc.html


Thanks!

Steve Lucas
www.ExoticRainforest.com
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