Subject: Melastomeae-seeds needed

From: [email-masked] (Karsten Meyer)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 15:49:23 +0100

Hello botanists,

I am looking for ripe fruits or seeds of Melastoma species or of related
taxa (Osbeckia, Otanthera, Dissotis, Tibouchina) to grow plants for DNA
extractions from the young leaves and for chromosome counts. If anyone has
acess to these plants, please send me some samples.

The plants are shrubs or herbs with showy rose to violet flowers, 5 petals
and 10 stamens. The connectives of the anthers are prolonged and have
appendages at the base, the ovary is crowned by hairs, and the seeds are
cochleate and very small.

Thanks,
Karsten

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Karsten Meyer
Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Mainz
55099 Mainz - Germany
Tel: 06131-39 25 91 - fax: 06131- 39 35 24
e-mai:l KMEYER@ mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de