Sockhom Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Hello all, This is my first post on this forum. Some of you may already know me as François Sockhom Mey, a carnivorous plant hobbyist and Nepenthes taxonomist. Incidently, I also have a soft spot for ant plants and have observed several of them in the course of my studies on the Nepenthes of Indochina and other parts of SE Asia. Here are some pictures of some impressive specimens of Hydnophytum I found in southern Cambodia a few years ago: Some of them were huge, nearly twice the size of a football balloon! Apparently only H. formicarum is known from Cambodia but there is a striking paucity of literature on this plant for the Indochinese peninsula so I am not sure if all Hydnophytum populations I observed i in Cambodia indeed fell within H. formicarum. François. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Wistuba Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Hi Francois, thank you very much for posting these pictures here. Yes, these were the ones you've shown me that I remembered. Very very impressive! It certainly has a very high affinity with Hydnophytum formicarium. However, this species is so widespread and has such a big variability, that IMHO it deserves a closer look. BTW, Beccari, named quite a number of forms, including a forma siamense: All the best Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sockhom Posted February 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 Hi Andreas, Yes, it surely is very close to Hydnophytum formicarum and I shall refer to it in the meanwhile as H. cf. formicarum . Actually, I have observed about 5 or 6 populations of these plants in Cambodia. I will post some more pictures soon so we might debate on the identification of all these interesting plants! Speak soon, François. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurélien Posted February 25, 2014 Report Share Posted February 25, 2014 Thanks for sharing François! Kew and J&H quote only H. formicarum in IndoChina, but I think also that some different species coul occur... Perhaps H. formicarum is like the Jebb & Huxley concept of Myrmecodia tuberosa, really variable and ubiquistic species but I don't like this idea... We grow quite similar species in Nancy's greenhouses: https://picasaweb.google.com/115123529972931132238/HydnophytumSp19973309 It come from the island of Ko Chang (Thailand), well known for the recently described Nepenthes chang... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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