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Problematicae:
Zamioculcas Loddigesii

by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott.

In: Synopsis Aroidearum complectens enumerationem
systematicam generum et specierum huius ordinis.
- Vienna 1856. p. 70-71 - [Schott Syn. Aroid. 70-71]

note: this is the first description of the genus Zamioculcas Schott
and of the species Z. Loddigesii Schott
(Synonym of Z. zamiifolia (Lodd.) Engl.)

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Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1856), Synopsis aroidearum complectens
enumerationem systematicam generum et specierum huius ordinis. p. (I)



Conspectus.

Aroideæ.

I. Diclines.

A. Efilamentatæ.

A. Stenozeugmaticæ.

  (…)

B. Pachyzeugmaticæ.

α. Gymnogoneæ.

Trib. Caladieæ.

  (…)

Subtr. Problematicæ.

Zamioculcas.

  (…)


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Subtrib. Problematicae:
Zamioculcas Loddigesii

(Synonym of Z. zamiifolia)


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Heinrich Wilhelm Schott (1856), Synopsis aroidearum complectens
enumerationem systematicam generum et specierum huius ordinis. p. (1); 39; 70; 71



AROIDEAE.

Spadix continuus. Bacca. Semina epidermide arillacea tecta.

I. Diclines.

A. Efilamentatæ. Antheræ absque filamento manifesto sessiles, (processubus axeos plus minusve protensis insidentes).

  (…)

B. Pachyzeugmaticæ (Connectivum loculis validius).

α. Gymnogoneæ Flores fœminei nudi, (ovaria nempe staminodiis non comitata). Pollen in farciminulis propulsum,

Trib. Caladieæ S. Stamina in synandria connata. (Folia longe vaginata.)

  (…)

PROBLEMATICAE. Synandriis praeditae? habitu Caladieis alieno. Folia l. peltato-tricrura, l. pinnati-partita.

  (…)

ZAMIOCULCAS S. Spatha spadicem subcontinuo androgynum paulo superans. Synandria? contigua. Ovaria ···· Brasilia ?

1. Loddigesii S. Acaulis. Folia impari-pinnata. Inflorescentia breviter-pedunculata.
— Caladium zamiaefolium  Lodd.


note: Schott abbreviates himself as "S."; the official abbreviation in scientific literature, however, is Schott




 

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