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Re: Amorphophallus variabilis

From: Krzysztof Kozminski <kk at netgate.net> on 1997.06.12 at 16:43:03(831)
>Dear Don,
>
>Well......no, variabilis should NOT have bulbils on the leaf, so that
>makes your plant eitehr bulbifer or muelleri.
What about A.erubescens? You wrote about it in Aroideana that it may turn
out to be indistinguishable from A.muelleri, but it would seem that
presence versus absence of leaf bulbils should be good enough to separate
the two, no? Have these species been merged already?
Taxonomically curious
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