Subject: Re: Plant Taxonomy

From: [email-masked] (mel turner)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:18:42

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Chung) writes:
>Hi, I am currently doing a project on plant taxonomy, where I have to
>label the plants in my school compound, as follows:
>1. Botanical name:
>2. Common name:
>3. Family:
>4. Country of origin:
>I have got the information for most of the plants, but have problem
>with the following plants, all of which grow in the tropics, where I
>come from(i.e., Malaysia). 
Try books on house plants, 

>Aphelandra aquarrosa
>Zebra Plant
Acanthaceae
South America

Cordyline terminalis   [notice spelling correction]  
>[Firebrand = cultivar name?]  ti plant  
? Agavaceae? Liliaceae?  [monocot families are in flux lately...]
>Polynesia?

Monstera deliciosa [Philodendron pertusum is just a horticultural name]
Delicious monster   [Ceriman; "split-leaf philodendron"]
Araceae
Tropical America [Mexico-Central America?]

Nephrolepis exaltata
Sword fern  [Boston Fern] etc.
Nephrolepidaceae or Davalliaceae; -- ["Polypodiaceae" in the old broad 
        sense]
widespread in tropics

>Cephalotaxus fortunei
>?
Cephalotaxaceae
Asia  [Japan or China?]

Codiaeum [sp.?] [Punctatum aureum is a cultivar name?]
>Croton
Euphorbiaceae
Polynesia?

>Helioconia metallica
?
Heliconiaceae
Trop. America, I think
 mdt

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From: [email-masked] (Chung)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 14:29:22 GMT

>Tropical America [Mexico-Central America?]

Thanks a lot for your help.

Can you help me with two more plants:

Bougainvillea glabra
Bunga Kertas(a Malaysian name. What's its English name?)
?
?

Schizostachyum rachyllodum
Buluh(Malysian name for bamboo)
Gramineae
?

TIA and best regards, Jason Chung

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From: [email-masked] (Chung)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:31:09 GMT

1. Botanical name:
2. Common name:
3. Family:
4. Country of origin:

I will be most grateful if someone could[in double quick time] help me
out with the missing information, or point the way as to where on the
Net I can get the necessary information. The plants are(Botanical
names):

Aphelandra aquarrosa
Zebra Plant
?
?

Cardyline terminalis
Firebrand
?
?

Philodendron pertusum
Delicious monster
?
?

Nephrolepis exaltata
?
?
?

Cephalotaxus fortunei
?
?
?

Punctatum aureum
Croton
?
?

Helioconia metallica
?
?
?

Regrads and many TIA from Jason Chung,  Malaysia.

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From: [email-masked] (mel turner)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 15:49:00

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Chung) writes:
>Bunga Kertas (a Malaysian name. What's its English name?)
"Bougainvillea"
Nyctaginaceae
South America

>Gramineae  [a.k.a. Poaceae]
E. Asia, according to Willis' dictionary
mdt

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From: [email-masked] (John Murray)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:47:59 GMT

> Bunga Kertas(a Malaysian name. What's its English name?) 
"Paper Flower"
Nyctaginaceae
Brazil

>Buluh(Malysian name for bamboo)
I could not find this one

>TIA and best regards, Jason Chung

John Murray
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Ian Staples)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:47:32 GMT

>I could not find this one

I'm not sure exactly what you're after, but under _Schizostachyum_ Nees
Willis (6th Edition) says: "Gramineae (13).  25 E. As."
and in Gramineae 13 we find Bambuseae.

So I take it that it's an east Asian genus related to bamboos.

Cheers,  Ian S.

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From: [email-masked] (Una Smith)
Date: 29 Mar 1996 00:06:14 GMT

The answers to most of Chung's questions can be found in
D. J. Mabberley's _The Plant Book_, Cambridge University Press.

I use _The Plant Book_ on a daily basis, for scientific plant
names.  For common names, I am told that a new book by R. Hyam
and R. Pankhurst, _Plants and their Names_ does the trick.  It
is published by Oxford University Press.

	Una Smith

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From: "Dr. Pamela Burns-Balogh" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:02:58 -0800

mabberley's,., the plant books is out of print
Hyam's book is not yet available in the USA
this is what I have been told by Oxford
-- 
Dr. Pamela Burns-Balogh [email-masked]
Balogh Scientific Books http://www.balogh.com/~balogh/
phone: +1 217 355 9331 fax: +1 217 355 9413

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From: [email-masked] (Una Smith)
Date: 29 Mar 1996 16:04:59 GMT

>mabberley's,., the plant books is out of print

The second edition, published in the last few years, is still in press.

>Hyam's book is not yet available in the USA

It has just come out;  I'm sure it will be available soon.

	Una Smith

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From: Michael Sternberg <[email-masked]>
Date: 31 Mar 1996 21:57:34 GMT

Are these suitable references for paleobotany purposes?

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From: [email-masked] (Una Smith)
Date: 1 Apr 1996 19:09:40 GMT

>Are these suitable references for paleobotany purposes?

Which?  The Plant Book etc?  No.  There are few general taxonomic 
references in print now that are useful for paleobotany.  The
Palaeontology Association (UK) has some paleobotanical monographs,
and various recently published paleobotanical floras can be used
as general references.  For starters, see the Pal. Ass. Web page,
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/paleonet/PalAss/PalAss.html .

	Una Smith