June 1969 Horticulture
 

I was going through some old Horticulture magazines that a neighbor
had given me, and came upon this:

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New Mexican Orchid Discovered
A new orchid was discovered recently in the Rio Molino area
of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Dr. J. Stuart Rowley who was on a bird
collecting expedition for the American Museum, the California
Academy of Science and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate
Zoology. Dr. Rowley, obviously a botanist as well as an
ornithologist, died on the trip and the plant was named in
his honor.

Epidendrum rowleyi is a small, thick-leaved plant with
pale purple-pink flowers with narrow petals less than 2
inches long. It was found growing on a tall oak tree in a
typical Mexican, pine-oak forest. The type specimen plant is
preserved at the Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames in Cambridge,
Massachusetts and a living plant is now growing at the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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No reason, I just thought it was interesting.

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-john

February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.

June 1969 Horticulture
 

Me too. There's a pic at IOSPE. Not much else. You could add this to the
wikipedia page for the species.

K Barrett

"John M. Gamble" wrote in message
...
I was going through some old Horticulture magazines that a neighbor
had given me, and came upon this:

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New Mexican Orchid Discovered
A new orchid was discovered recently in the Rio Molino area
of Oaxaca, Mexico, by Dr. J. Stuart Rowley who was on a bird
collecting expedition for the American Museum, the California
Academy of Science and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate
Zoology. Dr. Rowley, obviously a botanist as well as an
ornithologist, died on the trip and the plant was named in
his honor.

Epidendrum rowleyi is a small, thick-leaved plant with
pale purple-pink flowers with narrow petals less than 2
inches long. It was found growing on a tall oak tree in a
typical Mexican, pine-oak forest. The type specimen plant is
preserved at the Orchid Herbarium of Oakes Ames in Cambridge,
Massachusetts and a living plant is now growing at the
Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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No reason, I just thought it was interesting.

--
-john

February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.