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P.C. Boyce and S.Y. Wong
Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) ofBorneo XXII:
The enigmatic Aridarum montanum refound
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P.C. Boyce and S.Y. Wong
Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) ofBorneo XXIII:
Piptospatha coJata and P. deceptrix, taxonomic novelties from Borneo 7
R. Gogoi and S. Borah
Musa markkui (Musaceae), a new species from Arunachal Pradesh, India 19
R. Gogoi and S. Borah
Two new species and a new record for Colocasia (Araceae: Colocasieae)
from Arunachal Pradesh, Northeast India 27
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R. Kishor and J. Leong-Skornickova
Zingiber kangleipakense (Zingiberaceae):
Anew
species from Manipur, India 39
J.D. Mood, L.M. Prince, J.F. Veldkamp and S. Dey
The history and identity ofBoesenbergia longiflora (Zingiberaceae)
and descriptions offive related new taxa 47
Newman
M.F.
Valid publication ofBoesenbergia aurantiaca (Zingiberaceae) 97
H.-J. Tillich and J. Leong-Skornickova
Aspidistrajiewhoei (Asparagaceae), a new species from north Vietnam 101
Y.H. Tong, W.B. Xu, Y.F. Deng, K.M. Wong and N.H. Xia
Rubovietnamia sericantha (Rubiaceae: Gardenieae),
a new combination and notes on the genus in China 107
M. Turner
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Additions to The Plant Taxa ofH.N. Ridley, 4.
The Primitive Angiosperms (Austrobaileyales, Canellales,
Chloranthales, Laurales, Magnoliales, Nymphaeales and Piperales) 115
Veldkamp
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Nomenclatural notes on Eugenia reinwardtiana (Myrtaceae)
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Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) of Borneo XXII:
The enigmatic Aridarum montanum refound
RC. Boyce^ and S.Y. Wong^
^Pusat Pengajian Sains Kajihayat (School ofBiological Sciences),
Universiti Sains Malaysia 1800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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^Department ofPlant Science Environmental Ecology,
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Faculty ofResource Science Technology,
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ABSTRACT. Aridarum montanum Ridl., a species known from a single herbarium specimen
allegedly collected on Gunung (Mt) Santubong, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo in 1909, has
been refound on exposed shales in Sri Aman Division, and Sarikei Division, Sarawak, and
subsequently flowered in cultivation. Morphological differences of the new collection
compared with the original description and figure are catalogued and commented upon. An
amended and expanded species description is provided, and the plant is illustrated in habitat,
and from flowering cultivated material. Speculations on the probable location origin ofBrooks’
type material are proffered.
Keywords. Aroid, Mount Santubong, rare species, Sarawak, shales
Introduction
Aridarum montanum Ridl., the type species of the genus, has not been recollected
since Cecil Joslin Brooks gathered a single specimen, purportedly on Gunung (Mt)
m
Santubong, and now deposited the Natural History Museum, London (BM). Boyce
& Wong (2011) outlined the few facts known pertaining to A. montanum, emphasizing
that numerous surveys of the supposed type locality, a large sandstone mountain
km
situated on a peninsulajutting into the South China Sea approximately 35 north of
Kuching, the state capital of Sarawak, had failed to locate the plant, although another
quite different Aridarum (A. nicolsonii Bogner) is abundant there. Recollection ofA.
montanum from a two quite separate very wet shale-dominated sites, one in Sri Aman
Division and the other in Sarikei Division, coupled with the persistent failure to locate
plants of this species at the supposed type locality on much drier sandstone ecology,
raises the probability that Brooks’ label data are in eiTor.
Brooks was in Sarawak during 1 900-191 0, employed as a metallurgical chemist
by the gold-exploitation arm of the Borneo Co. Ltd. During this period he collected
a wide range of wildlife, including plants, although mainly ferns. Data for Brooks’
fieldwork are often incomplete, and there are doubts over the numbering ofat least part
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of his collections. Brooks’ Borneo fieldwork was concentrated almost exclusively in
N
west Sarawak. He made collections on Gunung (G.) Santubong (c. 1® 44' 110®20'E),
G.Pueh(c. r48'N 109°41'E), G. Kapor(c. r23'N llO^^T'E), G. Singai (c. r30'18.28''N
110n0'21.36"E), the Banjaran Bungo (c. Tlb'N 110^9'E), Bau (c. r25'N 110^9'E),
Bidi (c. r23'N 110°8'E), and Tringgus (c. 1”14'N 110”5'E). With the exception of
Banjaran Bungo, none of the above areas has exposed shales. Gunung Santubong,
G. Singai, and Tringgus are predominantly sandstone; G. Kapor and Bidi are forested
karst limestone, while G. Pueh is granite. Our new collections coupled with high levels
of“geological endemism” present among aroids strongly favours A. montanum being
a shale-obligate.
Brooks’ only documented excursion away from this general area was in 1908
when he ventured to the source of the true right tributary of the Sungai Sarawak,
afterwards continuing to the headwaters of the Sungai Sambas where it rises in the
Bengkayum (Bengkayang) Mountains (G. Niyut and G. Bentuang) NE ofPontianak,
in modem Kalimantan Barat, Indonesian Borneo. Brooks returned to Sarawak fi'om
this expedition by way of Siluas and G. Pemissen (Brooks 1911). These areas do have
exposed shales, and fi-irthemiore there are floristic links with Banjaran Bungo and
via the Klingkang range to the border areas of Lubok Antu, close to one of the new
collections of A, montanum. The Sarawak Banjaran Bungo is botanically reasonably
well sampled and to date A. montanum has never been located there. On balance it
seems most likely that Brooks’ collection was made during the trip to the headwaters
ofthe Sungai Sambas.
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Aridarum montanum Ridl., J. Bot. 51: 201(-202), pi. 527 (1913); Bogner Hay,
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Telopea 9(1): 186 (2000); Boyce Wong, Malayan Nat. J. 63(4): 613-618, Figs. 2
3 (2011). TYPE: CJ. Brooks 1035, Malaysian Borneo, Sarawak, Kuching Division,
Santubong (but see above), Oct 1909 (holo BM!). (Fig. 1)
Trailing-pendent or tufted obligate rheophyte to c. 25 cm. Stem initially condensed,
later elongating and often branching from the base, trailing portions to c. 35 cm (or
3^ mm
more?), very slender, diam., all except the oldest portions clothed with tightly
fitting red-brown netted fibres derived from the prophylls and cataphylls, and slender
adhering sinuous green roots. Leaves numerous, earned in dense tufts at the tips ofthe
mm
stems, often two or three leaftufts basal to these stems;petiole 0.2-3 cm long, c. 1
diam., sheathing at the very base, the wings extended into a namowly triangular ligular
portion 2.5-3 cm long, drying red-brown; blade linear-lanceolate, stiffly coriaceous,
mm
deep green, 2-10 cm long x 3.5-4.5 wide, base very narrowly cuneate, apex
very narrowly acute and apiculate for 0.5-1 mm; midrib abaxially very prominent,
adaxially more or less flush with the lamina; primary lateral veins not differentiated;
secondary venation more or less obscure, running into a relatively thick marginal
vein; tertiary venation very obscure. Inflorescence solitary; peduncle much exceeding
mm
the petioles, 9-10 cm long, c. 0.8 diam, green. Spathe narrowly ovate, apically
acute, unconstricted, 1.5-2 cm long, initially green, late in development (1-2 days
prior to opening) turning entirely white; spathe limb gaping at pistillate anthesis, the
Aridarum montanum in Sarawak interpreted 3
Fig. 1. Aridarum montanum Ridl. A. Plants in habitat on shale waterfall. Note the long, almost
naked stems. B. Flowering shoot. Note the very narrow leaf blades, the eonspieuous ligules,
and the netted fibre covering the naked stem C. Inflorescence at pistillate anthesis, with the
spathe gaping. D. Spadix, with the spathe artificially removed. Note the convex connective and
very long setiform terminus to the thecae. E. Alcohol-preserved spadix. All from P.C.Boyce et
al. AR-3728. (Photos: A, Mike Lo; B-E, Peter C. Boyce)
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upper 2/3 caducous at staminate anthesis, at which time the lower persistent 1/3 flares
mm
into an obconic cup. Spadix 1.4-1.5 cm long, c. 3 diam., subcylindric, distally
mm
tapering to an acute apex; pistillateflower zone 2-3 long, about three irregular
mm
whorls of subglobose-oblong pistils c. 0.5 diam.; stigma sessile, button-like,
mm
narrower than the pistils, c. 0.4 diam., papillate, centrally impressed; staminate
mm
flower zone contiguous with pistillate zone, c, 1 ,2 cm long, c. 2.5 diam., fertile
to the acute apex; stamens crowded, arranged in pairs, more or less ellipsoid and the
pairs rhombohexagonal from above, longitudinally aligned (with respect to spadix
mm
axis), c. 1.2-1.5 x 0.3-0.4 mm, convex in nature, drying with a deep longitudinal
excavation; thecae on the distal and proximal (with respect to spadix axis) sides ofthe
mm
anther, base triangular, the remainder a long straight vei^ slender horn c. 7 long,
m
these folded in horizontally across the top of and meeting the middle ofthe anther,
elevating somewhat at staminate anthesis. Fruiting spathe broadly obconic, white.
Fruit unknown.
Other specimens examined: MALAYSIAN BORNEO. Sarawak. Sri Aman, Lubok Antu,
Batang Lemanak, 0l‘’09'N 1 1 1‘^39'E, P.C.Boyce et al AR-3728 (SAR); Sarikei, Ulu Sarikei, Air
Terjun Ruan, 01'’55'02.0"N lir29'10.7"E, PC.Boyce & S.Y.WongAR-4100 (SAR).
Distribution. Known with certainty only the two localities reported here.
Ecology. Shale cascades and small waterfalls under very wet lowland forest; 25-60
m
asl.
Notes. Recollection ofA. montanum has revealed critical inaccuracies in the original
description and figure (Ridley 1913), and also interpretative misconceptions in the
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description provided by Bogner Hay (2000).
Inaccuracies in Ridley’s description and figure are the excavation of the stamen
connective, and the supposed presence of triangular-based, setiform sterile flowers
at the ‘base’ of each stamen. The connective excavation is an artefact resulting from
shrinkage during drying for preservation. In nature the stamen connective is markedly
convex, fonning a pronounced dome between the thecae horns (Fig. ID). It remains so
in alcohol, although the stamen pairs, which are appressed when fresh, shrink laterally
when spirit-preseiwed, revealing deep sutures between each pair of stamens (Fig. IE).
Ridley’s sterile flowers attached to each stamen are, in fact, the thecae, one on each
end of the stamen, and comprising a triangular somewhat gibbous basal portion (the
actual theca) and a long, setiform tenninus though which the pollen is released.
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Bogner Hay’s description contains the following statement: “inteipistillar
staminodes few at the base of the female zone, shortly stipitate, spindle-shaped,
narrower and shorter than the pistils (interpistillar staminodes fide Ridley (loc. cit.
[i.e., Ridley 1913]); absent from the Holotype in our observation)». Ridley (1913)
makes no mention of ‘interpistillar staminodes’. He does make comparison of the
‘sterile flowers’ he believed present at the base ofeach stamen (discussed above) with
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the club-shaped sterile stamens (Ridley says “flowers”) associated with the pistils in
most Homalomena. To Ridley this was pertinent because he supposed his Aridarum to
be related to Homalomena sect. Chamaecladon, However, nowhere does Ridley use
the term ‘interpistillar staminodes’ or mention such stmctures to be basal to the female
zone. What Ridley does say, in the protologue (here translated from the original Latin),
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is: “sterile flowers basal to [i.e., at the base ofthe stamens].
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Apart for correcting moiphological descriptive inaccuracies, access to
comprehensive material, coupled with field obseiwations, has established that uniquely
for the genus the stems ofA. montanum are much elongated and somewhat branched,
forming pendent masses hanging in the water flow (Fig. 1A). It may be assumed that
Brooks’ original collection comprised a single tuft ofleaves taken from the base ofone
Why
ofthese stem complexes. Brooks failed to collect more representative material is
unclear. Other minor differences between the new collection and the type are that our
mm
plants have very short petioles, less than 3 long. The type plant has petioles up to 3
cm long, although most are much less than this, and some very short, but none as short
as here recorded.
Circumscription ofAridarum
The morphologies noted above raise issues with the circumscription of Aridarum
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sensu Bogner Hay (2000), not least the absence ofan excavated stamen connective
that is one of the defining morphologies for the genus Aridarum. However, pending
publication of an on-going molecular study, including placement of the type species,
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Aridarum sensu Bogner Hay (2000) is here retained, but with caution.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
Research and fieldwork in Borneo was, most recently, under
Sarawak Forestry Department Research Permit No. NCCD.907, 4.4(Jld.7) and Park Pennit
No: 104/2012. The continuing collaboration and support of the Forest Department Sarawak,
and Sarawak Forestry Corporation, are gratefully acknowledged.
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