RE: [Aroid-l] 52 new species discovered in Borneo

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At the Bohart Museum of Entomology, we have been working over the insects from several Bornean expeditions. The new species, genera and families are somewhere in the upper hundreds!!! There is still much to do in the cataloging of biodiversity.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces@gizmoworks.com]On Behalf Of Peter Boyce
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 5:18 PM
To: Discussion of aroids
Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] 52 new species discovered in Borneo

 

Fascinating news but, 52 species in the plant, animal and fungal kingdoms combined is really the tip of the tip of an ENORMOUS iceberg; our current research on one medium-sized aroid genus (Schismatoglottis) will almost certainly more double the number of species from c. 70 to 150 in Sarawak alone; Homalomena (perhaps the largest aroid genus is Borneo) has c. 80 spp. alone in Sarawak fewer than 30 names for the whole island; Alocasia had, prior to the latest revsion just under a decade ago  recognized 21 species for Borneo (then a 47% increase); since then a further 14 species have been recognized. Perhaps the most striking aroid example come from Amorphophallus with currently 15 species described for Borneo and a number of others (maybe as many as 5 that we know of... no idea how many others awaiting finding) awaiting description but as recently as 1981 the tally for the island was just 2 species.

 

Peter

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "piaba" <piabinha@yahoo.com>

To: "Discussion of aroids" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>

Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:35 AM

Subject: [Aroid-l] 52 new species discovered in Borneo

 

> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061219-borneo-species.html
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> i don't see mention of aroids, but there is an amazing
> Marantaceae... the photo is in the report that is
> available on the WWF webpage (follow the links).
>
> on the other hand, they mention 16 new gingers.
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