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Cryptocoryne parva de Wit |
Cryptocoryne parva grows in the central highlands of Sri Lanka near Kandy. It is collected in the recent years only a very few times and must perhaps be regarded as a threatened species!
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A locality of C. parva in
the highlands near Kandy, Sri Lanka
coll. NJ 23-14
photo Jacobsen |
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Detail of the locality near Kandy.
coll. NJ 23-14
photo Jacobsen
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Locality in the Kegalle district,
Sri Lanka.
coll. NJ 22-4
photo Jacobsen |
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An uproted specimen of C. parva
coll. Windelov
photo Windelov
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Habitus of C. parva in emersed culture.
The ruler division is 1 cm.
coll. hort., cult. B47
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The limb of the spathe of C. parva never opens wide. There is a distinct collar.
coll. hort., cult. B47
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A view inside the kettle of C. parva.
The wall of the kettle being cut away for one half.
coll. hort., cult. B47
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Cultivated specimen of C. parva
coll. hort. cult. NJ2896
photo Jacobsen
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coll. AMR06-3 cult. B 1589
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coll. AMR06-3 cult. B 1589
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coll. AMR06-3 cult. B 1589 |
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coll. AMR06-3 cult. B 1589 |
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A small container, densily grown with C.
parva at temperatures between 20- 25 C. Not the unopened spathe.
coll. hort., cult W51
photo van Wijngaarden
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From the same container a rather long spathe.
Note the narrow opening of the limb.
coll. hort., cult W51
photo van Wijngaarden
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drawing V in Petch 1928
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De Wit (1990) gives this drawing onf C.
parva
drawing Ike Zewald
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Distribution of C. parva on Sri Lanka
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Cryptocoryne parva is the smallest Crypt, known until now. The leaves mostly
not exceeding 6 cm. The spathe is about 1.5 cm. The leaves are grass-green without any
purple. However this species is quite easy to cultivate, it is seldom seen in aquaria. It
is an excellent plant for the foreground of a normal aquarium, growing not too fast, so
reducing maintenance.
Already in 1928, Petch, who was director of the Botanical Gardens of Peredeniya (Sri
Lanka), published in his Notes on Cryptocoryne a drawing of
this species, which he regarded to be a C. nevillii (see more on this topic under C. x willisii). De Wit described it as Cryptocoryne parva in 1970.
Cryptocoryne parva grows in the central highlands of Sri Lanka near Kandy. It is
collected in the recent years only a very few times and must perhaps be regarded as a
threatened species!
Updated February 2002 |
Literature. :
- Alston, A.H.G., 1938. Cryptocoryne in: The Kandy Flora : 68, fig.363-367 (with
some drawings).
- Eggers, G., 1994. Sri Lanka 2. Lagenandra- und Cryptocoryne-Arten. Aqua-Planta 1-94 :
20-28.
- Graaf, A.de & Arends, J.C., 1986. The occurrence of Cryptocoryne and Lagenandra
(Araceae) on Sri Lanka. Nord.J.Bot. 6 : 757-764.
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179-190.
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85-99.
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- Wendt, A., 1958. Die Gattung Cryptocoryne Fischer. Die Aquariumpflanzen in Wort und Bild
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- Wit, H.C.D.de, 1970. A key to the species of Cryptocoryne Fisch. ex Wydler (Araceae).
Misc. papers 6 LH Wageningen : 257-280.
- Wit, H.C.D.de, 1971. Het genus Cryptocoryne (22). Cryptocoryne lucens de Wit, Cryptocoryne
parva de Wit. Het Aquarium 41(12) : 291-293.
- Wit, H.C.D.de, 1990. Aquarienpflanzen, 2. Auflage. Ulmer, Stuttgart.
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