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Hydnophytum alboviride or H. crassicaule?


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H. alboviride Merr. & L. M. Perry, (Elmer Drew Merrill & Lily May Perry) in Journal Arnold Arboretum, Vol. 26, p21, (1945.)  http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8443412#page/25/mode/1up.

Description. A large plant with branches over 1 m long, erect, leaves flat, flowers greenish white. Habitat/Range. Mossy forest at 2150 m (7054 ft.) on large tree branches, 18k southwest of Bernhard Camp, near the Taritatu (Idenburg) River, Papua Province, Western New Guinea Island.  There are more notes in English added to the Latin Type description.

http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.a00096797

http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bm000945567

http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bri-aq0570114

Synonym. H. crassicaule van Royen

http://ibis.biologi.lipi.go.id/specimen_detail.php?&species_id=004E931XKD&spec=alboviride&genus_id=0064I6M6CD&gen=Hydnophytum&family_id=00124Q9AB2&fam=Rubiaceae

 

H. crassicaule P. Royen (Pieter van Royen) published in The Alpine Flora of New Guinea vol. 4, p2672/3, (1983) (Alpine Fl. New Guinea). See H. alboviride Merr. & L. M. Perry.

http://ibis.biologi.lipi.go.id/specimen_detail.php?&species_id=004E931XKD&spec=alboviride&genus_id=0064I6M6CD&gen=Hydnophytum&family_id=00124Q9AB2&fam=Rubiaceae

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H. vaccinifolium P. Royen. (Pieter van Royen) The alpine flora of New Guinea: volume 4. Taxonomic part, Casuarinaceae to Asteraceae, J. Cramer, (Alpine Fl. New Guinea 4, p2668, 1983.)

Lam #1641 Originally labelled H. condensatum s. n., then in 1991. H. alboviride, and (undated) holotype of H. vaccinifolium. Nova Guinea neerlandica in reg. flum. Mamberamo, pr. voet Doormanstop. 3250 m. (10663 ft.) http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000475 And http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000476

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H. crassicaule P. Royen (Pieter van Royen) published in The Alpine Flora of New Guinea vol. 4, p2672/3, (1983) (Alpine Fl. New Guinea.)

Bogor specimen relegated to H. alboviride

http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/multimedia/L.2913091_01435743919/term=Hydnophytum+crassicaule&from=0

Royen Holotype relegated to H. alboviride.

http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L.2913818

And. http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L.2913091

http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000477

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H. alboviride. Merr. & L. M. Perry, (Elmer Drew Merrill & Lily May Perry) in Journal of the Arnold Arboretum, Vol. 26, p21, (1945.) (J. Arnold Arbor.) Type, Brass 12682&3. Merr & Perry note. Of the species of Hydnophytum already described from New Guinea, this one superficially suggests H. Hellwigii (sic) Warb., but differs considerably in particulars. Apart from small leaves, distinctive characters specify, flowers in alveoli surrounded by bracts and long brown hairs; calyx with cilia 0.5 mm. long, also brown; corolla glabrous within; anthers closely affixed by the middle of the back, only apices exserted. On long leafless branches (the leaves often being only toward the tip), flowers or buds with the corolla half protruding may be observed at nodes.

http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8443412#page/25/mode/1up

Synonym H. crassicaule, West New Guinea, Mt Dorman (Doormantop) at 3200 m. (10,498 ft.)

http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L.2913818

And. http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L.2913091

http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000477

Epiphytic on branches of large trees in mossy forest, large plant, branches to 1m. Leaves flat, flowers greenish white, 18 k s. of Bernhard Camp.

Duplicate type. http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000474

Originally labelled H. condensatum s. n., then in 1991. H. alboviride, and (undated) holotype of H. vaccinifolium. Nova Guinea neerlandica in reg. flum. Mamberamo, pr. voet Doormanstop. 3250m.(10663 ft.) http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000475

And http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000476

High epiphyte in mossy forest at 2150m. Branches erect, flowers greenish-white. 18 km SW. of Bernhard Camp, Taritatu (Idenburg) River, 1939.

http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L.2913090

Doormantop, 1920. Type, http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L%20%200000477

Type. https://s3.amazonaws.com/huhwebimages/7700671B97FC45E/type/full/96797.jpg

National History Museum. UK.

http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens/resource/05ff2255-c38a-40c9-b657-4ccb55ab2feb/record/467675

Queensland H. http://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bri-aq0570114

Ecology/Infauna. A high-altitude species identified as LAM 1641 in Huxley (1978.) Large, often terrestrial, rarely contained ants but often frogs, lizards and large invertebrates.

Huxley, C. R. “The Ant-plants Myrmecodia and Hydnophytum (Rubiaceae), and the relationships between their morphology, ant occupants, physiology and ecology.”

Click PDF. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.1978.tb02285.x/citedby

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