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Myrmecodia echinata


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Myrmecodia tuberosa William Jack published in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 14, 1823. Synonym M. echinata Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré in the Voy Uranie 472, 1830.  (Full title Voyage autour du monde fait par ordre du Roi sur les corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820.)

1823 will of course have precedence over 1830, all being equal.

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OK

 

but what M.tuberosa ?

 

M.tuberosa 'armata'

 

jeff

 

 

I'd immediately made a bet that most species (maybe not all) that are lumped into M. tuberosa will turn out to be "good" ones once somebody looks at them closely enough on genetic level with the right tools...!

 

All the best

Andreas

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  • 3 months later...

I read this document

 

M.echinata come from  Java island  near the Gunung Pantjar .

 

Then I see just  M.echinata = M.tuberosa 'armata'   this locality seem noted  for this specie  in the HUXLEY&JEBB  revision.

 

jeff

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I see a number of Facebook users are posting photos of plants bearing the illegitimate name Myrmecodia echinata http://www.tropicos.org/Name/100227130.  Here is my current understanding.

M. echinata Gaudich. (Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré) IS an illegitimate name for a possibly M. tuberosa collection from "In insulis Mollucis (rawak) in rubipus" thus presumably from Rawak Island, Moluccas Islands. It was published as Mirmecodia (sic) echinata.in Voyage autour du monde, entrepris par ordre du roi, éxécuté sur les corvettes de S. M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820; Botanique p472, (1830) (Voy Uranie.)  It seems Rawak Island is situated close to the equator near the north west of the Bird's Head Peninsula of Papua Province, West New Guinea Island. Other nearby islands are Manouran and most importantly Waygeo, both have a number of spellings in the ancient literature. On modern maps the larger island is spelt Waigeo and these are Papuasian islands rather than being Moluccan although the Moluccas are not far away.  Waigeo sits north west of Sorong and nearby Rawak Island was certainly used for its harbour in the very early days of European exploration.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/98627#page/488/mode/1up.

Rawak Island was certainly visited by Freycinet in the French Corvette "Uranie". http://www.ssplprints.com/image/113479/tombs-of-the-papuans-island-of-rawak-1817-1820.

See M. tuberosa “rumphii” for a Moluccas form and Beccari's illustration of it in Malesia Raccolta (link below.)  However, I suspect most plants in cultivation bearing this name are not from the Moluccas or from the Rawak/Waigeo Island's region and are just one (or  more?) of the commonly distributed 'tuberosa' forms.  

Other illegitimate synonyms because they are based on the above.

M. echinata (Gaudich) Miquel (Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel) published in Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi. IV, p257, (1868/9) (Ann Mus Bot Lugduno-Batavi.)

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/2547#page/286/mode/1up

M. echinata (Gaudich.) Antoine (Franz Antoine) in Oesterreichische botanische Zeitschrift Vol 32, p347 (1882). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/91415#page/361/mode/1up.

M. echinata (Gaudich) Becc. (Odoardo Beccari) in Malesia raccolta 2, p113/4 (1884). Illustration. http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44197946#page/227/mode/1up.

 

M. echinata Muell. (Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller) another nomen illegitimum published as a name only in Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants Vol 1 (5) p90. (1877).

(Descr. Notes Papuan Pl.) http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/ing/Libro.php?Libro=7247.

The only reason I can see for a possible link to M. tuberosa "armata" (or M. armata for those that prefer not to follow Huxley & Jebb) is that 'armata' is very widespread (from Vietnam south throughout Indonesia) and is self pollinating, thus permitting its easy dispersal among collectors.  Thus persons obviously guessing an identification, have a better, but still miniscule chance of being accurate.

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