1999-A-24 [Chen Yi A. du-bois-reymondiae]

[George R Stilwell, Jr.]

Bjorn,

Numbering our members.
Interesting idea. I'd welcome comments from all AEG members.

I think the ID scheme for Chen Yi plants was discussed at length on
Arisaema-L.
If I remember correctly, Year, Chen Yi Number, and Chen Yi name were to
be
part of the ID with the proper name/names included when established. Eric
has a section of his Arisaema page devoted to this
<http://botu07.bio.uu.nl/arisaema/>.

Note the Chen Yi name was included for those of us who lost or mislaid
the Chen Yi number.
So the ID is quite lengthy, for example:

1999:A-24:du-bois-reymondiae:A. engleri

now we add a member number, which I'll promptly forget (and will have
mislaid the list):

1999:A-24:du-bois-reymondiae:A. engleri:#1

but it's not much more compact than:

1999:A-24:du-bois-reymondiae:A. engleri:Stilwell

Note I used colons because dashes are part of the species name used by
Chen Yi.

Frankly, I'd be totally confused by this name a year from now. But with:

1999:A24:unidentified   or   1999:A24:A. engleri   when identified

it'd be easy enough to look up the original name, if I really cared, and
the person
who was talking about it from the E-mail header. All the information
could be
tabularized on Eric's page for reference purposes.

However, that's just one man's opinion. Let's hear yours.

But, Bjorn, please don't continue to use the name A. bockii. As has been
discussed several
times on Arisaema-L, it's not a legitimate name for an Arisaema. I don't
want
to go through the whole argument again. Basically the name was originally
given
to an improperly described plant without even an inflorescence. Please,
let's
not use the name anymore.

As far as I am aware, all Chen Ye 1999-A-24 are either A. engleri or
still unidentified.

My plants bloomed but did not set seed. I did not examine the flowers, so
I can't
comment on the numbers of male and female types present.

There was a rather extended thread on seed development without the
benefit of pollen
in Arisaema. I forget the technical term for this, but Jim McClements can
help us out.
A search of the Arisaema-L archives might be enlightening
<http://listserv.surfnet.nl/archives/arisaema-l.html>.

Ray
<GRSJr at Juno.com>

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