At 09:14 PM 1/25/98 -0400, George de Verteuil wrote: >In a recent Cacti_etc entry Juan Chahinian spoke of the invalididity of >a S. socotrana attributed to Lavranos. On a related subject, a friend >gave me a small plant of a species that he described as Sans. lavranos. >Is this a valid species and what's the background to that one. > does it have elonated petioles and look like a sort of elongated spoon shape.... kind of a miniature as things go? hermine