Hydnophytum hahlii.

[Derrick]

H. hahlii Karl Rechinger in Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 11, Plantae novae Papuanae p186, (1912). (Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg). Type description http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/7032#page/199/mode/1up .

   Another Solomon Island name and supposedly a synonym for H. guppyanum Becc. according to the following isotype.

http://herbarium.univie.ac.at/database/detail.php?ID=171038

However, I think it is a synonym for H. kajewskii as currently accepted.

The Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1945.) reports. “Hydnophytum Hahlii” (sic) “Solomon Islands: San Cristoval: Hinuahacro, Brass 2912, Sept. 1932, alt. 900 m. (2953 ft.), mountain forests (small trees; branches swollen at the nodes; leaves pale, flat, fleshy, the nerves more prominent above; flower white; fruit smooth, 6x4 mm., marked longitudinally with white lines). We have placed this specimen here with some hesitation. Rechinger's species grew on the branches of strand trees. However, the flowers on the specimen at hand are only in young bud, and when mature the stamens would be exserted, and for this reason the hairiness within the corolla is correspondingly different. The buds indicate a very dense growth of hairs protruding from the mouth of the corolla. The pyrene is more rounded than attenuate at the base. Nevertheless, the plate of Rechinger's species is so much like the plant at hand that we hesitate to place it elsewhere without further material.”

[jeff]

for me the leaves are different from H.kajewskii and H.guppyanum

 

H.guppyanum

 

 

H.kajewskii

 

 

jeff