Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo)
Author
Wong, Sin Yeng
Author
Joling, Jyloerica
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http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/17.3.931
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Bucephalandra danumensis
S.Y.Wong, P.C.Boyce &
Kartini
Figure 3G
Material
examined.
MALAYSIA
–
Tawau
•
Lahad Datu
,
Danum Valley
near second waterfall;
04°57′30″N
,
117°41′47″E
;
21 January 1991
;
A. Bahaman
et al.
SAN 134426
(
SAN
)
•
Lahad Datu
,
Danum Valley Conservation Area
,
Kawag
,
Ali Baba Trail
,
Ali Baba Falls
;
05°02′42″N
,
117°58′ 51″E
;
119 m
elev.;
8 July 2018
;
Wong Sin Yeng, P. C
.
Boyce
&
Kartini Saibeh
(
SAR
)
.
Identification.
Bucephalandra danumensis
is differenti-
ated from all other
Bucephalandra
species
with echinate/ papillate spadix appendix staminodes by the combination of the appendix and staminate flower zone being of about equal length, by the ellipsoid thecae separated by a deep sinus on the ventral surface, needle-like thecae extensions that curve upwards and interstice staminodes with conspicuously thickened, recurved margins. In appearance plants of
B. danumensis
most closely resemble those of
B. yengiae
P.C.Boyce
from
Kalimantan Timur
, and an imperfectly known undescribed species from
Kalimantan Utara
;
B. danumensis
differs from both by the equal proportions of the appendix and staminate flower zones (vs. appendix appreciably longer than staminate flower zone), and by the thick recurved mar- gins of the interstice staminodes (vs. staminode margins not or scarcely thickened, and not recurved).
Bucephalandra danumensis
differs from the only other
Bucephalandra
species
from
Sabah
,
B. ultramafica
S.Y.Wong & P.C.Boyce
, by the echinate/papillate appendix staminodes (vs. polygonal with very rounded angles, somewhat umbonate) and by not being obligated to ultramafic (ultrabasic) rocks (
Wong et al. 2018
).
Distribution and ecology.
Endemic to
Sabah
. Known only from two localities, approximately
20 km
distant, in the Danum Valley Conservation Area. Restricted to igneous stream beds and waterfalls outcropping through Cretaceous deepwater sediments in lowland perhumid forest between elevations of 120 and
310 m
.