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1978 1(1) 4-10 Simon J. Mayo Aroid-hunting in Bahai (Buy)
ABSTRACT: Despite having been the first area of Brazil to be colonized by the Portuguese, the north-eastern state of Bahia is still poorly-known botanically, particularly in its dry interior region. All the indications are, however, that the flora is very rich, and this applies to the aroids as well as to many other families of plants. Consequently, when in the first three months of 1977 I took part in a Kew expedition to Bahia led by Dr. Raymond Harley, I was particularly keen to refind the many poorly-known Araceae recorded from this region.

1978 1(1) 21-23 Simon J. Mayo The aroid collection of Roberto Burle-Marx
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ABSTRACT: The estate of Roberto BurleMarx is near Guaratiba to the southwest of Rio de Janeiro, beyond the Serra da Pedra Branca and the Restinga da Jacarepagua, and occupies a site stretching from the top of a fairly steeply-sloping hillside to its base. The principal botanical interest of his plant collection, which he has amassed over some 30 years or so, lies in the very rich collections of Araceae, Bromeliaceae, Musaceae, Velloziaceae and Orchidaceae. As regards the Araceae, his collections of Anthurium and Philodendron spp. merit special attention, being not only of Brazilian species but also with good representation from Ecuador, Costa Rica, Panama and other parts of the neotropics in which Sr. Burle-Marx has collected.

1979 2(1) 3-14 S. J. Mayo Aroids at Kew (Buy)
ABSTRACT: The Botanic Gardens at Kew first came into existence in the eighteenth century when Princess Augusta, mother of George III of Great Britain, had part of the Royal Estate at Kew converted for this purpose in 1759. We can gather some idea of the aroid collections at Kew in those early days from the famous "Hortus Kewensis", a threevolume work published in 1789, and written by William Aiton, Kew's first Head Gardener. From this source, in which all the species then in cultivation at Kew were described and classified, we know that the aroid collection amounted to 21 species, or more than half the total number known to the botanical world of the day. Since that time, of course, the number of described taxa of Araceae has mushroomed to the present approximately 2000 species and 110 genera, and though the aroid collection at Kew can fairly claim to be one of the most comprehensive to be found anywhere in the world today, its representation of some 70 genera and 450 species nevertheless leaves ample scope for expansion.

1979 2(3) 82-94 S. J. Mayo, Graziela M. Barroso A new predate-leaved species of Philodendron from Bahia (Buy)
ABSTRACT: Philodendron leal-costae Mayo et G. M. Barroso, sp. nov is described.

1980 3(1) 32-35 Simon J. Mayo Biarums for pleasure (Buy)
ABSTRACT: Among the general run of "bulbs" the genus Biarum undoubtedly falls into the "curiosity" category. With their low-slung inflorescences, glossy black-purple spathes and, let's face it, pretty powerful stench, the unwary lover of the more courtly Narcissus or Crocus is liable to recoil from the earthier appeal of Biarum with what must be reluctantly accepted as distaste, or in extreme cases, disgust.

1980 3(2) 69-71 Simon J. Mayo Aroid symposium at Selby Gardens
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ABSTRACT: At the end of March a unique event in the history of aroid botany took place in Sarasota, Florida, when the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens hosted a symposium on the Systematics and Biology of the Araceae. The conference, organized and directed by Dr. Michael Madison, marked the coming together of specialists on the family from USA, Great Britain, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Ivory Coast, Venezuela, and India, and represented the largest gathering of aroid experts ever held.

1981 4(1) 20-22 S. J. Mayo A new species of Philodendron from Trinidad
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ABSTRACT: Philodendron simmondsii Mayo sp. nov. is described.

1985 8(1) 14-25 Josef Bogner, S. J. Mayo, C. Sathish Kumar New species and changing concepts in Amorphophallus (Buy)
ABSTRACT: The reduction of Thomsonia Wallich (1830) to the synonymy of Amorphophallus Blume ex Decaisne (1834), nom. cons. is discussed, along with the resultant renaming of Amorphophallus napalensis and Amorphophallus sumawongii. Amorphophallus pendulus is described. Pseudodracontium and Plesmonium are also discussed.

1992 15 38-39 Simon J. Mayo, Marcus A. Nadruz Coelho Meeting of the Araceae specialists at the Brazilian National Botanical Congress
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ABSTRACT: This meeting, the first of its kind in Brazil, was organized by us with the support of the Brazilian Botanical Society and the President of the National Botanical Congress in Sao Luis, Professora Terezinha Rego.

2000 23 89-99 S. J. Mayo, L. P. FÃ©lix, J. G. Jardim, A. M. Carvalho Anthurium bromelicola--a remarkable new species from Northeast Brazil (Buy)
ABSTRACT: Anthurium bromelicola is a new species from Northeast Brazil with two subspecies. It is unusual in its close association with bromeliad plants, its twining habit and very slender internodes; subsp. bromelicola, from the "agreste" region of the state of Pernambuco, is characterized by an erect, subcampanulate, dark spathe with a conspicuously costate inner surface and occurs with bromeliads on exposed rock outcrops; subsp. babiense, from the coastal restinga vegetation of the state of Bahia, has a more open, paler, non-costate spathe without differentiation into tube and blade, and occurs with terrestrial bromeliads on sandy substrates.

2002 25 63-66 Thomas B. Croat, S. J. Mayo, Julius O. Boos A new species of Brazilian Philodendron subgenus Meconostigma (Araceae) (Buy)
ABSTRACT: Philodendron xanadu is described as new. It represents an interesting member of section Meconostigma but differs from other members of that subgenus by its nearly complete lack of posterior lobes and its weakly developed posterior ribs.

2008 31 148-154 A. Haigh, L. Lay, S. J. Mayo, L. Reynolds, M. Sellaro, Josef Bogner, Peter C. Boyce, Thomas B. Croat, Michael H. Grayum, R. Keating, Carla V. Kostelac, Alistair Hay, Wilbert L. A. Hetterscheid, M. Marcela Mora A new website for Araceae taxonomy on www.cate-araceae.org (Buy)
ABSTRACT: The development and current progress of the Cate-Araceae website is described and its relation to the aroid community discussed in the context of rapidly developing initiatives to migrate traditional descriptive taxonomy onto the internet (ETaxonomy).