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Leaf Anatomy and C02 Recycling During Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in Twelve Epiphytic Species of Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae)
Int. J. Plant Sci. 154(1): 100-106. 1993. © 1993 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 1058-5893/93/5401 -0010502.00 LEAF ANATOMY AND C02 RECYCLING DURING CRASSULACEAN ACID METABOLISM IN TWELVE EPIPHYTIC SPECIES OF TILLANDSIA (BROMELIACEAE) VALERIE S. LOESCHEN,* CRAIG E. MARTIN,' * MARIAN SMITH,t AND SUZANNE L. EDERf •Department of Botany, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2106; and t Department of Biological Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois 62026-1651 The relationship between leaf anatomy, specifically the percent of leaf volume occupied by water- storage parenchyma (hydrenchyma), and the contribution of respiratory C02 during Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) was investigated in 12 epiphytic species of Tillandsia. It has been postulated that the hydrenchyma, which contributes to C02 exchange through respiration only, may be causally related to the recently observed phenomenon of C02 recycling during CAM. Among the 12 species of Tillandsia, leaves of T. usneoides and T. bergeri exhibited 0% hydrenchyma, while the hydrenchyma in the other species ranged from 2.9% to 53% of leaf cross-sectional area. Diurnal malate fluctuation and nighttime atmospheric C02 uptake were measured in at least four individuals of each species. A significant excess of diurnal malate fluctuation as compared with atmospheric C02 absorbed overnight was observed only in T. schiedeana. This species had an intermediate proportion (30%) of hydrenchyma in its leaves. Results of this study do not support the hypothesis that C02 recycling during CAM may reflect respiratory contributions of C02 from the tissue hydrenchyma. Introduction tions continue through fixation of internally re• leased, respired C02 (Szarek et al. -
Bromgaz Draft Nov Dec 2009
Vol 33 Number 6 Nov/Dec 2009 PUBLISHED BY: COMMITTEE MEMBERS President: Len Colgan 1 Ailsa Avenue, Warradale, 5046. Ph: 82969426 Secretary: Derek Butcher. 25 Crace Road, Fulham, 5024. Ph: 83567728 Vice president: Adam Bodzioch Treasurer: Bill Treloar Margaret Butcher Maureen Hick Colin Waterman Lainie Stainer Bev Masters Email address: Meetings Venue: Secretary - [email protected] Maltese Cultural Centre, Web site: http://www.bromeliad.org.au 6 Jeanes Street, Beverley Time: 2.00pm. Second Sunday of each month Exceptions –1st Sunday in May, & August & no meeting in December or unless advised otherwise VISITORS & NEW MEMBERS WELCOME T. aeranthos Pots, Labels & Hangers - Small quantities available all meetings. For special orders/ larger quantities call Ron Masters on 83514876 Dates for 2009 Meeting dates:- Nov 8 th. Special Events:- Nov 7th Sales day Dates for 2010 Meeting dates:-Jan 10th, Feb 14th - AGM, March 14 Special Events:- March Show 27th & 28th. Applications for membership always welcome. Subscriptions $10.00 per year Feb. to Feb. Several reference photos courtesy of “fcbs.org” September meeting from the Secretary’s desk It was a bit of a change to have Adam in the Chair while Len was trying to get home from Melbourne after a somewhat sorrowful visit. He was not in mourning from the Crows loss. Margaret and I were giving the main talk on a visit to northern NSW and these days when we do such visits we are often asked for advice on names, never on culture. I wonder why? As such the meeting was on a querying note, where members had to have their brains in gear. -
ELBS Newsletter JULY 2017
NEWS East London LETTER Bromeliad Society July 2017 South Africa Established: 25 July 2009 Our aim is to promote and encourage awareness and interest in Bromeliads in East London and all of South AfricaAfrica!!!! ELBS is an Affiliated Society of Bromeliad Society International June Meeting And now for something completely different! We met at the home of Wyndham Whitfield who very kindly opened his home, garden and orchid houses to us to explore and enjoy. Due to his recent experience with the poisoning of the water hyacinth on the Nahoon River from where he gets his water, I was surprised to see that some beauties have survived, but not without a lot of hard work being involved plus repotting and the pain of having to let go all the orchids that did not survive. It truly was a devastating experience for Wyndham. Wyndham gave a very interesting talk on orchids, an overview of where they originally come from and the main types plus some crosses, which I would not even try to name here, so enjoy the photos of just a few samples of Wyndham’s orchids and Our host, Wyndham Whitfield with those of you who know about them, some of his gorgeous orchids. will no doubt recognise the beauties pictured here. He a l s o covered what is basically required a n d which are the most suitable to grow in our East London climate. Everyone has always told me that cymbidiums were so easy to bring into flower here, but sometimes our night time temperatures don’t go down low enough. -
BROMELI ANA PUBLISHED by the NEW YORK BROMELIAD SOCIETY (Visit Our Website
BROMELI ANA PUBLISHED BY THE NEW YORK BROMELIAD SOCIETY (visit our website www.nybromeliadsociety.org) December, 2013 Vol. 50, No. 9 IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO by Kathy Dorr [Kathy Dorr was a BSI officer during the 1970s. She edited a bulletin for the Long Beach-Lakewood (Calif.) Bromeliad Study Group, and I can attest to her expertise. This article (from her bulletin) is excerpted from the Bromeliad Society Journal, Dec. 1985, Vol. 35, No.6 pg 271-273. I am indebted to the knowledgeable Helga Tarver of Clearwater, Fl., a long time subscriber and correspondent who brought it to my attention. Kathy took the words out of my mouth - 28 years in advance of my saying them. I’m happy to have her confirmation. Ed.] ...one of the definitions of brainwash is establish this hypothesis. I started with sixteen “persuasion by propaganda or salesmanship”...for tillandsias acknowledged to be epiphytes. They Mother Nature to be taken as gospel, this would included two varieties of T. ionantha, T. araujei, T. apply. From time immemorial, it has been written, didisticha, T. stricta, T. caput-medusae, T. bulbosa, T. taught and exhorted that, basically, tillandsias are streptophylla, T. argentea (now fuchsii - Ed), T. epiphytic. Apparently no one considered the various schiedeana, T. tectorum, T. albida, T. bergeri, etc. theories that bromeliads may have originated from I planted all these as terrestrials in four-inch one or a few terrestrial species... pots. I used a terrestrial mix of humus and sand Benzing writes: “Some bromeliads are (commerical azalea mix). They were watered the facultative epiphytes - in other words, they can grow same as all the terrestrials. -
Water Relations of Bromeliaceae in Their Evolutionary Context
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Apollo Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2016, 181, 415–440. With 2 figures Think tank: water relations of Bromeliaceae in their evolutionary context JAMIE MALES* Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EA, UK Received 31 July 2015; revised 28 February 2016; accepted for publication 1 March 2016 Water relations represent a pivotal nexus in plant biology due to the multiplicity of functions affected by water status. Hydraulic properties of plant parts are therefore likely to be relevant to evolutionary trends in many taxa. Bromeliaceae encompass a wealth of morphological, physiological and ecological variations and the geographical and bioclimatic range of the family is also extensive. The diversification of bromeliad lineages is known to be correlated with the origins of a suite of key innovations, many of which relate directly or indirectly to water relations. However, little information is known regarding the role of change in morphoanatomical and hydraulic traits in the evolutionary origins of the classical ecophysiological functional types in Bromeliaceae or how this role relates to the diversification of specific lineages. In this paper, I present a synthesis of the current knowledge on bromeliad water relations and a qualitative model of the evolution of relevant traits in the context of the functional types. I use this model to introduce a manifesto for a new research programme on the integrative biology and evolution of bromeliad water-use strategies. The need for a wide-ranging survey of morphoanatomical and hydraulic traits across Bromeliaceae is stressed, as this would provide extensive insight into structure– function relationships of relevance to the evolutionary history of bromeliads and, more generally, to the evolutionary physiology of flowering plants. -
An Alphabetical List of Bromeliad Binomials
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST OF BROMELIAD BINOMIALS Compiled by HARRY E. LUTHER The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Sarasota, Florida, USA ELEVENTH EDITION Published by the Bromeliad Society International June 2008 ii INTRODUCTION TO EDITION XI This list is presented as a spelling guide for validly published taxa accepted at the Bromeliad Identification Center. The list contains the following information: 1) Genus number (the left-hand number) based on the systematic sequence published in the Smith & Downs monograph: Bromeliaceae (Flora Neotropica, number 14, parts 1-3; 1974, 1977, 1979). Whole numbers are as published in the monograph. 2) Species number (the second number) according to its systematic position in the monograph. Note: Taxa not included in the monograph or that have been reclassified have been assigned numbers to reflect their systematic position within the Smith & Downs framework (e.g., taxon 14.1 is related to taxon 14). The utility of this method is that one may assume for example that Tillandsia comarapaensis (150.2) is related to T. didisticha (150) and therefore may have certain horticultural qualities in common with that species. 3) Genus and species names follow the respective numbers. 4) Subspecific taxa (subspecies, varieties, forms) names are indented below the species names. Note: Variety "a" (the type variety) is not listed unless it contains a form (see Aechmea caudata ). Similarly, the type form is not listed. 5) Author name follows the specific and subspecific names. These names are included for the convenience of specialist users of the list. This list does not contain publication data or synonymy, as it is not our intent for it to be a technical nomenclatural guide. -
Supplementary Material What Do Nectarivorous Bats Like? Nectar Composition in Bromeliaceae with Special Emphasis on Bat-Pollinated Species
Supplementary Material What do nectarivorous bats like? Nectar composition in Bromeliaceae with special emphasis on bat-pollinated species Author: Thomas Göttlinger, Michael Schwerdtfeger, Kira Tiedge, Gertrud Lohaus* *Correspondence: Gertrud Lohaus ([email protected]) Supplementary Figure S1: Concentration of sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose) in nectar of seven genera of Bromeliaceae (Alcantarea (A), Guzmania (B), Pitcairnia (C), Puya (D), Tillandsia (E), Vriesea (F), Werauhia (G)) which include bat-pollinated species. The box plots show medians (horizontal line in box) and means (x in box). Supplementary Material What do nectarivorous bats like? Nectar composition in Bromeliaceae with special emphasis on bat-pollinated species Author: Thomas Göttlinger, Michael Schwerdtfeger, Kira Tiedge, Gertrud Lohaus* *Correspondence: Gertrud Lohaus ([email protected]) Supplementary Figure S2: Concentration of amino acids (ala, arg, asn, asp, gaba, gln, glu, gly, his, iso, leu, lys, met, phe, pro, ser, thr, trp, tyr, val) in nectar of seven genera of Bromeliaceae (Alcantarea (A), Guzmania (B), Pitcairnia (C), Puya (D), Tillandsia (E), Vriesea (F), Werauhia (G)), which include bat-pollinated species. The box plots show medians (horizontal line in box) and means (x in box). Supplementary Material What do nectarivorous bats like? Nectar composition in Bromeliaceae with special emphasis on bat-pollinated species Author: Thomas Göttlinger, Michael Schwerdtfeger, Kira Tiedge, Gertrud Lohaus* *Correspondence: Gertrud Lohaus ([email protected]) Supplementary Figure S3: Cation concentrations (Ca2+, K+, Na+, Mg2+) in nectar of seven genera of Bromeliaceae (Alcantarea (A), Guzmania (B), Pitcairnia (C), Puya (D), Tillandsia (E), Vriesea (F), Werauhia (G)), which include bat-pollinated species. The box plots show medians (horizontal line in box) and means (x in box). -
Redalyc.INVENTARIO FLORÍSTICO DEL PARQUE NACIONAL CAÑÓN
Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México ISSN: 0366-2128 [email protected] Sociedad Botánica de México México ESPINOSA-JIMÉNEZ, JOSEFA ANAHÍ; PÉREZ-FARRERA, MIGUEL ÁNGEL; MARTÍNEZ-CAMILO, RUBÉN INVENTARIO FLORÍSTICO DEL PARQUE NACIONAL CAÑÓN DEL SUMIDERO, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO Boletín de la Sociedad Botánica de México, núm. 89, diciembre, 2011, pp. 37-82 Sociedad Botánica de México Distrito Federal, México Disponible en: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=57721249004 Cómo citar el artículo Número completo Sistema de Información Científica Más información del artículo Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal Página de la revista en redalyc.org Proyecto académico sin fines de lucro, desarrollado bajo la iniciativa de acceso abierto Bol.Soc.Bot.Méx. 89: 37-82 (2011) TAXONOMÍA Y FLORÍSTICA INVENTARIO FLORÍSTICO DEL PARQUE NACIONAL CAÑÓN DEL SUMIDERO, CHIAPAS, MÉXICO JOSEFA ANAHÍ ESPINOSA-JIMÉNEZ1, MIGUEL ÁNGEL PÉREZ-FARRERA Y RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ-CAMILO Herbario Eizi Matuda, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas 1Autor para la correspondencia: [email protected] Resumen: Se realizó el inventario florístico del Parque Nacional Cañón del Sumidero, Chiapas, México. Treinta y tres salidas de campo se hicieron de 2007 a 2008 y se consultaron y revisaron bases de datos de herbarios. Se registraron 1,298 especies, 632 géneros, 135 familias y 58 infraespecies. Las familias más representativas corresponden a Fabaceae (126 especies y 52 géneros) y Asteraceae (107 especies y 65 géneros). Los géneros más diversos fueron Ipomoea (18), Tillandsia (17) y Peperomia (16). Además, 625 especies se clasificaron como hierbas y 1,179 especies como autótrofas. -
Plant-Hummingbird Interactions and Temporal Nectar Availability in a Restinga from Brazil
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (2015) 87(4): 2163-2175 (Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences) Printed version ISSN 0001-3765 / Online version ISSN 1678-2690 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201520140349 www.scielo.br/aabc Plant-hummingbird interactions and temporal nectar availability in a restinga from Brazil LORENA C.N. FONSECA1,5, JEFERSON VIZENTIN-BUGONI2,6, ANDRÉ R. RECH3 and MARIA ALICE S. ALVES4 1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro/ UFRJ, CCS, IB, Caixa Postal 68020, 21941-590 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 2Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas/ UNICAMP, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 970, Barão Geraldo, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brasil 3Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia/UFU, Av. Pará, 1720, Campus Umuarama, 38405-320 Uberlândia, MG, Brasil 4Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro/UERJ, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, Maracanã, 20550-011 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 5Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo/CETESB, Av. Professor Frederico Hermann Jr, 345, Pinheiros, 05459-900 São Paulo, SP, Brasil 6Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark Manuscript received on July 10, 2014; accepted for publication on April 27, 2015 ABSTRACT Hummingbirds are the most important and specialized group of pollinating birds in the Neotropics and their interactions with plants are key components to many communities. In the present study we identified the assemblage of plants visited by hummingbirds and investigated the temporal availability of floral resources in an area of restinga, sandy plain coastal vegetation associated with the Atlantic forest, in Southeastern Brazil. -
Generico Cialis on Line
BROMELIAD SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO SEPTEMBER 2018 Meeting Specifics When: Thursday, September 20 Designing With Palms: Time: 07:30 PM Companion Plant Topic San Francisco County Fair Where: Building Palms are a landscape staple in warm, temperate climates worldwide. But these stunning and statement-making plants 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way are large, expensive, and difficult to install, resulting in San Francisco unique design challenges. In Designing with Palms, palm expert Jason Dewees details every major aspect of designing and caring for palms. Jason shares his expertise in plants, and especially palms, with designers, landscape architects, botanical garden curators, municipalities, and gardeners, always with an eye to design. Jason helps identify and source the best varieties based on the design intention and requirements, growing conditions, and market availability. Roger Lane has signed up for refreshments this month. Any additional refreshments are appreciated. Thanks in advance! September 2018 August Meeting Cristy Brenner took us to the Roraima tepui, inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World Last month, Cristy Brenner best trips in her life. were more experienced hikers and gave us a slide show on her kept way head of Cristy and Betty. trip to the Roraima tepui in The first day’s hike was 2013. Cristy made this trip relatively easy and somewhat Cristy showed us slides of Brocchinia with Betty Paterson who has level. After this, the climb was hechtioides that is similar to one spoken to our society several against the rock walls of the found on the Auyan tepui (the first times about some of her many tepui. -
Potting Shed Observer
The Potting Shed Observer Issue 2. August 2012 ISSN 2253-5187 The Potting Shed Observer, August 2012. Page 1 Photos Cover picture is of an imported Bolivian species, named Tillandsia comarapaensis by Harry Luther in 1984. All photos are by the Editor unless advised otherwise. Wellington Tillandsia Study Group Meeting, July 2012 Held on 22 July 2012 at the home of Phyllis Purdie. The following plants were discussed: Phyl Purdie: Tillandsia punctualata in flower, had a distinctly orange tone to the floral bracts. This species normally has deep red bracts, like the picture below left. In the case of Phyllis’s plant the lighter colour may be due to the Tillandsia punctulata typical bract Tillandsia punctulata grown by Phyl colour. Purdie. Contents Publication details 2 Wellington Tillandsia Study Editor and publisher: Andrew Flower MA(Hons) Group Meeting July 2012 P.O. Box 57021, Mana Porirua 5247, New Zealand. email: [email protected] 7 An evolving Enano? Andrew Flower phone: (04) 2399-659 Copyright © 2012, all rights reserved. 8 Tillandsia funckiana, Bob Hudson Please request permission from the Editor before reproducing or distributing any portion of this document. The Potting Shed Observer, August 2012. Page 2 relatively cool, shady conditions it was grown in, or maybe the inflorescence might colour up more when it matures. Offsets of her plant were available to members, so when they flower it will be interesting to see whether they colour up differently. One of the members asked about her T. punctulata that has started an inflorescence which stopped developing and shown no movement for 4-5 months. -
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