Miscellaneous Notes in Temnadenia and Laubertia (Apocynaceae)

7 Notes for Miscellaneous Lectures

Here I share a few notes I used in various course lectures, talks, etc. Some may be just calculations that in the textbooks are more complicated, scattered, or less specific; others may be simple observations I found useful or curious. 1 Nemirovski Estimate of Mean of Arbitrary Distributions with Bounded Variance The popular Chernoff bounds assume severe restrictions on distribution: it must be...

Notes on Types in Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae in Cuban Herbaria and Four Lectotypifications in West Indian Gonolobinae

Four asclepiadaceous types not listed in a previous type catalogue of the collections of the Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Habana, Cuba (HAC) are provided, along with a discussion of typification problems associated with the associated Charles Wright collections. Lectotypifications are provided for Gonolobus stephanotrichus Griseb., Orthosia acuminata Griseb., Orthosia oblongata Griseb.,...

Notes on Early Land Plants Today. 26. Miscellaneous synonyms in liverworts (Marchantiophyta)

Aneura bipinnata (≡ Riccardia bipinnata, described from Jamaica as Jungermannia bipinnata (“2-pinnata“) by Olof Swartz (1788, 1806), is one of the oldest names in Aneuraceae and one of the poorest known. Swartz' original description and the brief diagnosis in Synopsis Hepaticarum (Gottsche et al. 1846) are the only available descriptions for the species. Stephani (1899) was unable to locate mat...

Vessels in Some Apocynaceae

In the present investigation vessels of 24 species of the family Apocynaceae have been studied. Lot of variation exist in the size and shape of vessels, number of perforation plates and intervascular thickening of walls in the taxa of Apocynaceae.

Miscellaneous HOL