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Hydnophytum zippelianum Becc.

  • 1. National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland; formerly Depart- ment of Plant Sciences, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX 1 3 RB, UK; corresponding author e-mail: matthew. jebb @ opw. ie.
  • 2. Picketts Heath, Ridgeway, Boars Hill, Oxford OX 1 5 EZ, UK.

Description

e. Hydnophytum zippelianum Becc.

Hydnophytum zippelianum Becc (1885) 174, t. 54: 8–11. — Type: Zippelius s.n. (L), New Guinea?

Base tuberous? Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, 8 by 2.1 cm, apex and base attenuate-acute, petiole 0.6–0.9 cm. Inflorescence sessile in axils. Corolla lobes long. Flower illustrated in Beccari (1885: t. 54).

Ecology & Habitat — Unknown.

Note — Type locality uncertain, possibly New Guinea. This species is illustrated by Beccari, and we have seen the Zippel collection, however, since the locality is dubious, and it equates to no other species, we have left it as little known. Interestingly H. stenophyllum, H. virgatum and H. sp.1, three other little known species share the combination of narrow leaf and sessile or shortly pedunculate inflorescence.

Notes

Published as part of Jebb, M. H. P. & Huxley, C. R., 2019, The tuberous epiphytes of the Rubiaceae 7: a revision of the genus Hydnophytum, pp. 23-91 in Blumea 64 on page 86, DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2019.64.01.02, http://zenodo.org/record/16883070

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Becc.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Gentianales
Family
Rubiaceae
Genus
Hydnophytum
Species
zippelianum
Taxon rank
species