RE: Araceae/Lemnaceae/Acoraceae
- To: lindsey@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: Araceae/Lemnaceae/Acoraceae
- From: W* H* <h*@vkc.nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:34:31 -0600
I can just see my first hybrid between Lemna minor and Amorphophallus
titanum! Wait untill THAT one escapes into ponds........... I am sure it
even knows how to defeat Pistia!
Cheers,
Wilbert
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> From: Peter Boyce[SMTP:pb02kg@lion.rbgkew.org.uk]
> Reply To: aroid-l@mobot.org
> Sent: donderdag 10 december 1998 16:37
> To: hetter@vkc.nl
> Subject: Araceae/Lemnaceae/Acoraceae
>
> Wilbert
>
> Thanks very much for your comments! Many folks are certainly unghappy
> about removal of Acorus from the aroids but will probably even
> less happy when they discover that we are INCLUDING the Lemnaceae in
> the aroids. Then again, nothing is new under the sun. Family
> Acoraceae dates from 1822 and Engler merged the Lemnaceae into
> Araceae as long ago as 1879.
>
> Pete
>
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