Acorus not an Aroid? was Source for Philodendrons

From: "Gabe Thomas" CDANIELLE at prodigy.net> on 2001.06.01 at 20:09:37(6673) Acorus is no longer considered an Aroid? What family has it been moved to? Its own? > Acorus which is listed in my copy of the Exotic Plant Manual but had been +More > disowned by time of the D. Brown book.) > Carol Ann > Nashville > Gabe Thomas

From: "Scott Lucas" htbg at ilhawaii.net> on 2001.06.01 at 20:40:50(6674) Per D.J. Mabberley ("The Plant Book") Acorus is now Acoraceae.... "formerly included in Araceae but habit and other morphological as well as molecular features exclude it; it has been argued that the family is 'basal' to the Monocots in being intermediate between several orders, having similarities with Araceae & Typhaceae but the presence of oil idioblasts & absence of raphides reminiscent of Zingiberaceae though it is outstanding in its well-developed perisperm devoid of starch." Scott +More > Acorus is no longer considered an Aroid? What family has it been moved to? > Its own? > > > Acorus which is listed in my copy of the Exotic Plant Manual but had been > > disowned by time of the D. Brown book.) > > > Carol Ann > > Nashville > > > > Gabe Thomas > >

From: "Peter Boyce" boyce at pothos.demon.co.uk> on 2001.06.02 at 15:14:55(6676) Acorus is now in Acoraceae (a family originally pblished in the early 19th C) and is also removd entirely from the Alismatales (the order in which the Araceae belongs) into its own order, the Acorales. Acorus is widely considered to be the most primitive living Monocot. Pete

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