Anthurium ID

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

From: l*@yahoo.com

To: aroid-l@gizmoworks.com

Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 2:12 PM

Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Anthurium ID

Dear Steve,

Aloha.

What would be important...and I am going to let you do the initial investigation...can you tie the collection numbers to locality data?  Just from reading the field notes...either Anthurium balaonum is a plastic, variable species...specifically the petioles and spadix color, etc. are different in the specimens listed.  My plant has characters that fit several of the notes,and not others.  My petioles are subterete and weakly sulcate on the adaxial surface.  My spadix, if memory is serving me, was yellow-green...not maroon at male anthesis...which the first specimen(#53706) is described as having...since the pollen is noted in this field observation.  When my plant next blooms, I will pay closer attention to details...as I really have only taken passing notice until this species became a subject of discussion.

Please connect the locality data to the numbers and whatever other details you can ferret out.

Aloha,

Leland


--- On Sat, 9/13/08, ExoticRainforest <S*@ExoticRainforest.com> wrote:

> From: ExoticRainforest <S*@ExoticRainforest.com>
> Subject: [Aroid-l]  Anthurium ID
> To: "Discussion of aroids" <aroid-l@gizmoworks.com>
> Date: Saturday, September 13, 2008, 12:31 PM
> Leland, your knowledge of aroids far outweighs my own but I
> thought everyone who is an Anthurium enthusiast might like
> to read some of Tom's notes taken from TROPICOS.
> Perhaps you can compare these to your plant and determine if
> your specimen is truly Anthurium balaoanum.  For those
> unfamiliar, the numbers at the beginning are Dr. Croat's
> specimen numbers.  Tom once explained in a series of
> personal emails that many people believe Anthurium balaoanum
> is Anthurium guildingii.  A. balaoanum is from Ecuador and
> Anthurium guildingii is from the lower eastern Caribbean and
> as you know both plants are very different.
>
> If your plant is Anthurium balaoanum I'd love to have a
> photo of the plant as well as the spathe to add to my
> webpage
> http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Anthurium%20balaoanum%20pc.html
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> #53706   Internodes short, 1.5-2 cm diam.; the roots ca. 5
> mm diam., mostly directed downward; cataphyll lanceolate,
> 3-4 cm long; petiole 3-sided, broadly and sharply sulcate
> adaxially, sharply angular abaxially, the ridge usually
> markedly asperous; geniculum ca. 1 cm long; blades
> coriaceous, dark green, matte; the midrib narrow, obtuse,
> the lateral veins obscure; the lower surface slightly paler;
> the midrib sharply acute, prominently raised; the primary
> veins moderately obscure, slightly darker than the surface;
> inflorescences erect; the peduncle terete, asperous, tinged
> purple; spathe green, reflexed-spreading, moderately thin;
> spadix maroon turning brown, the pollen whitish. 
>
>
> #50719    Epiphytic; stem to ca 1 m long, internodes 1-1.5
> cm long, 1-1.3 cm diameter; cataphylls deciduous; petiole
> terete; sterile; flowered in cultivation, spathe absent,
> spadix sessile, yellow-green, broadly arched, more or less
> tapered, stamens exserted, pollen pale yellow. 
>
> #73144   Terrestrial; internodes dark green; petioles
> obtusely flattened and weakly sulcate; blades subvelvety and
> weakly glossy above, much paler and glossy below, midrib
> acute and concolorous above, round-raised below;
> inflorescence erect; spathe green, deciduous; spadix
> yellow-green, moderately glossy. 
>
> #90395  Stems elongated to 1 m long; internodes short 2 cm
> diam.; petioles subterete, obtusely and weakly sulcate,
> weakly glossy, weakly flattened toward base; blade thinly
> coriaceous, dark green and matte-subvelvety above, slightly
> paler and weakly glossy below; midrib narrowly raised,
> bluntly acute, slightly paler above, narrowly round-raised
> and moderately paler below; primary lateral veins weakly
> paler, acute in shallow valley above bluntly and narrowly
> raised, paler below; tertiary vein in part weakly raised.
>
>
>   Dear Steve,
>
>   Aloha.
>
>   My plant is past blooming this year, I believe...but I
> will do so.  I think my plant must be something other than
> Anthurium balaoanum, if Dr. Croat's notes on the spadix
> are correct and diagnostic.
>
>   Aloha,
>
>   Leland
>
>
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