Maxillaria gorbatschowii

[Thomas Lammers]

At 01:06 PM 3/14/01 -0300, you wrote:

>According to a small internet news from today, a German botanist, Frank
>Brandenburg from Hildesheim, named a new Orchidaceae in lembrance of the 
>last  head of state of the Soviet Union, Michael Gorbatschov. It´s 
>"Maxillaria gorbatschowii" from the bolivian mountain forests.

Hm.  What a coincidence.  I'll soon be publishing a new sp. of 
Siphocampylus from Venezuela that I call S. praevaricator, because it looks 
for all the world like another genus.  Some wags have suggested that it 
commemorates the outgoing president of the USA, though I disavow any such 
implication myself, out of respect for the Office.


Thomas G. Lammers, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Curator of the Herbarium (OSH)
Department of Biology and Microbiology
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901-8640 USA

e-mail:       lammers at uwosh.edu
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Plant systematics; classification, nomenclature, evolution, and 
biogeography of the Campanulaceae s. lat.
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