[Aroid-l] Seeds of Typhonium (Sauromatum) brevipe or gaoligongense

From: Victor Soukup <soukupvg at email.uc.edu> on 2007.07.08 at 17:49:55(15958) Dear Members, If anyone has seeds of either, or both, of the above named Typhonium species, or knows of someone who might, please get in touch with me. The seeds can be fresh or taken from a dry herbarium specimen and can be up to 75 years old. They are needed to confirm chemical relationships in this part of the genus Typhonium. In 2000 in an article in Aroideana, Hetterscheid and Boyce transferred these two species from Sauromatum to Typhonium while presenting evidence for the move. They also presented evidence that these species along with a small group of other Typhoniums are different --- that Typhonium is paraphyletic. My chemical evidence supports this grouping except that I have never been able to find any seeds of the two above mentioned species to ascertain that this same chemical difference exists throughout the entire small group. Please help if you can, otherwise I must just make an assumption that they do in fact behave as their co-species, as reported by Hetterscheid and Boyce. Vic +More Victor G. Soukup PhD Herbarium University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221-0006 _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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