 |
This plant with a yellow limb of the spathe and the pallid
nerves on the leaf, is found by Peter Boyce cs. in the Taman Negara F.R.(Pahang).
photo Boyce |
|
 |
The herbarium sheet of the "yellow nurii",
herbarium K (not really readable)
|
|
 |
Afterwards you see the long peduncle of the spathe, not usual in C. nurii ...
photo Ganapathy |
|
 |
... and the spathe could be C. nurii.
photo Ganapathy
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
2011. A rather shallow stream in Pahang, Malay peninsula. Note the rapid in the centre of the picture.
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
Close up of C. nurii var. raubensis.
coll. NJM11-62
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
At the bank of the stream a small patch.
coll. NJM11-62
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
An uprooted plant. Note the long peduncle to keep the short spathe floating on the water surface.
coll. NJM11-63
photo Jacobsen
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
The length of the peduncle is probably adapted to the water level
coll. NJM11-63
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
Another uprooted raubensis with more greenish leaves.
coll. NJM11-62
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
An opened syncarpium to show the seeds.
coll. NJM11-62
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
There are several localities where these white veined plants grow. It looks that this character disappears in cultivation.
photo Siow
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
A typical nurii bud with forward curved limb of the spathe.
coll. AZ210-5, cult. B1356
|
|
 |
Variation in colour of the limb...
coll. NJM11-62, cult. B1439
|
|
 |
idem...
coll. NJM11-63G, cult. B1441
|
|
 |
idem...
coll. NJM11-x, cult.B1512
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
Variation in color of the limb...
coll. JS, cult. B1405
|
|
 |
idem...
coll. AZ210-5, cult, B1356
|
|
 |
idem...
coll. AZ210-5, cult. B1356
|
|
 |
idem.
coll.
JS-NJ3429, cult. SR426
photo Reitel
|
|
| |
|
|
|
 |
A flowering C. nurii var. raubensis in a (normal European) hard water aquarium.
coll. NJMx, cult. NJ
photo Jacobsen
|
|
 |
Grown emerged the peduncle stays short.
coll. NJM11-63G, cult. B1441
|
|
 |
Male flowers and appendix on the top of the spadix.
coll. NJM11-x, cult. B1512
|
|
 |
Distribution of C. nurii var. raubensis on peninsula Malaysia
|
|
| |
|
|
|
As this is a limestone species, it is easy to cultivate in a hard water aquarium. But it also grows well emerged in beech tree litter.
January 2016 |
Literature. (back to the nurii group):
- Jacobsen, N., J.D. Bastmeijer, H.B. Ganapathy, K.H.N.A. Mangsor, M. Mansor, A.S. Othman, S.N.A. Rahman, R. Rusly & J. Siow. 2015. A new calcicolous variety of Cryptocoryne nurii Furtado (Araceae)
from Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. Malayan Nature Journal 2013, 65(4), 230-239. (Document service)
|
|
