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

From: Victor Soukup <soukupvg at email.uc.edu> on 2007.07.09 at 15:03:18(15964) >Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:49:55 -0400 >To: >From: Victor Soukup +More >Subject: Seeds of Typhonium (Sauromatum) brevipe or gaoligongense > >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. I may be able to get by with only 2 - 3 > seeds of each. > 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 > >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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