Hydnophytum montivagum

[Derrick]

H. montivagum West New Guinea, Papua Province, Beaufort River, collector A. Pulle, #307 (1912.) This herbarium sheet was labelled H. streimannianum but was endorsed H. montivagum Huxley & Jebb in 1991 but this name is not used in their 2019 revision. http://data.biodiversitydata.nl/naturalis/specimen/L.2913589

Update. However, there is a mention of the collection Pulle 307 under H. ellipticum Merr & Perry which presumably is its current status. I quote “Pulle 307 reputedly comes from low altitude (80 m), and although this may be correct, it is also possible that the measure represents camp data rather than the actual collection site”. See Jebb & C. R. Huxley in The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 7: a revision of the genus Hydnophytum, Blumea 64, p39. (2019.) Pulle 307 http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/specimen/L.2913588

And http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/specimen/U.1561889

Papua New Guinea; Southern Highlands Province, 3k. SW of Erave on ridge top, E of path from Erave to Sawmilli. The collection “Jebb 429” is also assigned to H. ellipticum on p38 of their revision. http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/specimen/L.2913587

Other collections still listed as H montivagum on herbarium sheets.,

Isotype. Low level epiphyte. Tuber hanging by roots, no ants. Papua New Guinea, Sandaun (West Sepik) Province, 7k. NE of Telefomin on path to Eliptamin, (1983.)

Jebb 246, http://bioportal.naturalis.nl/specimen/L 0843020

Southern Highland Province, 3k. SW of Erave on ridge top to E path of Erave to Sawmill (1983). Sandaun (West Sepik) Province, 7k. NE of Telefomin on Path to Eliptamin. West New Guinea, Papua Province, Holuwon, Baliem river, 1980. Jebb 122 & 433 http://www.pngplants.org/search.htm