reply

Replies on: Casus Pro Diagnosi - Arisaema Identification Page

1. Arisaema spec.#3 (Send your reply, using the form)

Guy Gusman: a suggestion for your beautiful photo of A.spec. 3: it is - or it was - A. fargesii.

2. unknown #6 (Send your reply, using the form)

Guy Gusman: Thanks for the very nice picture of Kaichen's #6. It looks like A. bathycoleum I saw in Yunnan. However, usually the folioles are more lanceolate and narrower. This species grows in open rocky meadows.

3. Arisaema cf. concinnum (Send your reply, using the form)

Guy Gusman: I am astonished by the A. concinnum Brickell & Leslie 12583 which is a typical... A. consanguineum
Jim McClements: I'm surprised that Guy thinks that A. cf concinnum is a typical A.consanguineum, since it does not appear to have the threadlike extensions from the leaflets.

4. Arisaema cf. ternatipartitum (Send your reply, using the form)

5. unknown #2 (Send your reply, using the form)

6. Kunming (Send your reply, using the form)

hetter@worldonline.nl (Wilbert is that you?) Definitely a Typhonium, either T. kunmingense or T. horsfieldii. can only be determined by having a close look at the naughty bits.
Guy Gusman: ggusman@ulb.ac.be: Typhonium kunmingense H. Li
Paul Christian (01 Jul 1998) paul@rareplants.co.uk I think record ought to be made of the smell of this species. It has all the delicacy of Arum dioscoridis and is foul on opening, or soon after. I cut and carried spathes to take pictures, and it took several washes over several hours to finally rid myself of the odour.
Ray Stilwell (05 Jul 1998) GRSJr@Juno.com Wilbert has definitely ID'd the A. saxitile from Kaichen as Typhonium horsfieldii so the list should be changed from Typhonium kunmingense to Typhonium horsfieldii.

7. an other Kaichen Arisaema #6 (Send your reply, using the form)

8. Arisaema spec.#8 (Send your reply, using the form)

9. Arisaema Bhutan 2, and [3] (Send your reply, using the form)

Anne Chambers (18 Apr 1999): I apologise for their quality. It was monsoon-type rain at the time and was also a very dark site in heavy forest so it had to be a flash shot. I have made an effort to key it out - my best guess is it's related to utile but I'd be grateful to know what others think.
Guy Gusman (19 Apr 1999): I think they correspond to A. dilatatum, a species very close to A. elephas (or perhaps at most a variety). It is namely described in H. Noltie's book "Flora of Bhutan". It differs from a typical A. elephas by a widened (=dilatatum) shiny green spadix at the base, just above the fertile part; the appendage sometimes becomes purple towards the apex. The tube and the limb are greenish with purple stains.

11. Arisaema erubescens = Chen Yi A-37, from Sue Zunino (Send your reply, using the form)

Sue Zunino suez@northcoast.com photo -2: emergence of the inflorence along side and even with the leaf; photo -3: The inflorescense remaining under the leaf and purple at it's base. By the way, the leaf display on e-37 is identical to a-24. I didn't get a photo of e-37 from it's top, but I will do that tomorrow if you need it, and should anyway. E-37 is female (and seems to be forming fruit) and A-24 is male. I will have photos of these parts as soon as I finish up the film in my camera; photo -4: E-37 tubers

Please use the form for your reply, thanks E.J.Gouda