Etimology

From: Ide Laurent (ide@arcadis.be)
Date: Tue Jun 17 1997 - 10:07:10 PDT

Next message: John Walker: "Re: Flowering VFT"
Previous message: Lauren Weinstein: "Flowering VFT"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 18:07:10 +0100
From: Ide Laurent <ide@arcadis.be>
To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <aabcdefg2380$foo@default>
Subject: Etimology

Hi all

I've read 'sun pitcher plant' for Heliamphora many times, here in the list or
in Slack's book...

In 'Nature et Culture des Plantes Carnivores', Baffray, Brice, Danton,
Tournier, EDISUD 1989, the etimology of the plant name is as follow:

The greek root for amphora is amphoreus, pitcher. (sorry, no greek font
available). Nothing new.

But Heli, Elios (sun) is a confusion with Elos, swamp. So it should be
Elamphora or something like that, the swamp pitcher plant. G. Bentham is given
as author of the genera and the use of the word Elos.

Any comment is welcome.

Laurent

Next message: John Walker: "Re: Flowering VFT"
Previous message: Lauren Weinstein: "Flowering VFT"
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Jan 02 2001 - 17:31:04 PST