Re: New aroid in western Australia?

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May not be too long in waiting. “things” are afoot with Aussie “Typhonium”, with a paper just published that convincingly shows the Australian ones not to belong to Typhonium, plus Lazarum mirabile has recently been investiagated molecularly, plus Matthew Barrett is very active.

P.

Most likely a Typhonium , I got a few tubers of a much larger sp.from the Northern Territory
a few years ago .
They can be very difficult to keep alive . Probably be 10 years before we got a name for it .
Alistair Hay is in Columbia at the moment , he might have a comment to make on it later .

Michael Pascall,



> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:07:12 -0600
> From: samarak@gizmoworks.com
> To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com
> Subject: [Aroid-l] New aroid in western Australia?
>
> I've seen several web hits today on this topic, all of which seem to wind
> up at the same text. The articles all call the plant an "arum lily", don't
> give a genus or other botanical information, say that it was found in the
> Kimberly region by Matthew Barrett (Perth's Kings Park & Botanic Garden)
> along with other various new species in that remote area, and that the
> infloresence smells of burnt electrical wire.
>
> Here's a representative link:
>
> http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/new-lily-found-in-kimberley-smells-like-burnt-electrics/story-e6frg14u-1225991862095
>
> The picture is *an* aroid, but no idea if it's that aroid; one of the
> other articles showed a picture of Zantedeschia aethiopica with the same
> text.
>
> Anyone happen to know more about this? I dug through the KP&BG web site a
> bit but didn't find anything.
>
> Steve
>
> -- Steve Marak
> -- samarak@gizmoworks.com
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