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Another example is the genus Heliconia, which applies to butterflies which feast on Passionflowers (Passiflora), and also applies to the a tropical genus in the Zingerberales order, Heliconiaceae family. =A0These are the “False Bird of Paradise” or “Lobster claws” plants, which have very colorful inflorescences.

The Heliconia butterfly genus is now being called Heliconius, so that helps a little bit.

Zach

From: aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@www.gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of J. Agoston
Sent: Saturday, September 04, 2010 7:44 PM
To: Discussion of aroids
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Dracunculus and Dracunculus

Marek,

Yes animals and plants can have same gereric names, like Pieris brassicae is a butterfly eating brassicas, but Pieris japonica is a plant from Ericaceae as i know.

Jan

2010/9/2 Marek Argent <abri1973@wp.pl>

Hello,

While searching the web for documents I found something that made me scared.

Besides Dracunculus vulgaris and Dracunculus canariense, which we almost all heard about,

I found a document mentioning different species of Dracunculus which are... Nematodes:

http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/2147.pdf

Is it admissible for two quite different unrelated taxa to bear the same generic name?

???

Marek

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