Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:35:23 +1000 From: "Richard Jobson" <r.jobson@botany.uq.edu.au> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg1075$foo@default> Subject: Orchid, Liverwort confusion?
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>Dear Hideka,
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param>>Yes, my posting was surely triggered by
>your posting on carnivorous liverwarts. I think this species of
>'suspected' carnivorous orchid is a recent rescovery.
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>The Liverwort is not an Orchid, but
a Bryophyte (related to mosses), and the Liverwort paper I mentioned
(Barthlott, Plant Biology 2000) has nothing to do with the Paul Simons
'carnivorous Orchid' paper :-().
And yes, Simons' orchid species (Schomburgkia tibicinus) is
different from the Orchid you mentioned (Spiranthes).
<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><<I personally do not believe (does
not necessary mean <<'disbelieve')this
<<species is carnivorous. Even if it is, it is fairly small, and not
<<attractive at all.</color>
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>According to the Barthlott paper the Liverwort species Colura is
indeed a carnivorous plant. HOWEVER, if you are talking about
Simons' "garbage tip" orchid - this is probably inconclusive.
Yea, I agree that Liverworts are not that attractive in a CP
collection :-(
I hope this clears up any misunderstanding (well it sounded that
way anyway :-).
Rich.
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