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Viateur,
The translation in Arditti's Orchid Biology Reviews
and Perspective I says "white prickles" for the catch roots and "white fibrils"
for the normal roots.
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:29
AM
Subject: [OGD] Rumphius... and upward
growing roots
So many names for the same feature...
A while ago, from
memory, I was commenting to an orchid friend that my plants of Catasetum
integerrimum were producing (branching) upward-growing roots from the habitual
roots. At that time, I equivocally used the _expression_ 'food basket'.
After reading Dressler's description of the feature ( "a 'trash
basket' ... collect debris, which then forms humus about the plant roots,
where the minerals released by decay are readily available to the plant" --
The orchids: natural history and classification, page 90), I was tempted to
use the _expression_ 'debris collector' but, for the sake of clarity, we should
probably adopt the _expression_ used by Rumphius (ca 1627-1702) who, according
to Arditti, was the first author to describe the feature (see Fundamentals of Orchid Biology -- illustration,
caption : p. 589).
Have you read the original publication by Rumphius
in which he described the feature ?
What is the _expression_ used in Deutsch
?
Does the author described the feature in Latin ?
Comments,
suggestions and speculations are welcome but any assertion supported by quotes
and references are certainly more convincing and
instructive.
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Regards,
Viateur
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