Balanophora papuana
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Description
Dioecious plant, yellow to orange-yellow or red.
In a New Guinea specimen preserved in alcohol the leaves are 3¼ by 2½ cm with 7-11 longitudinal nerves. New Guinea and Celebes material has 4, rarely 5 leaves inserted at nearly the same level, thus appearing verticillate.
Flowers often in conspicuous vertical rows, bisymmetric or zygomorphic on account of lateral elongation, 4(-5)-merous.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Kinabalu present, Luzon present, Mindanao present, Mindoro present, Mts Murud present, NW. Borneo present
Malesia: Malaya, NW. Borneo (Mts Murud, Kinabalu), Celebes, Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro, Mindanao), and New Guinea. .
Notes
Distinguished from B. lowii by the fewer leaves which are nearly equal in size and not concealing the flowering inflorescence, from B. elonga-ta by the leaves being opposite and almost equal.
Citation
Merr. 1934 – In: Contr. Arn. Arb.: 54
Ridl. 1924 – In: Fl. Mal. Pen.: 174
VAL. 1929 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 131
H. J. LAM 1928 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 277, 294
MERR. & PERRY 1948 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 152
HEND. 1951: p. 458. – In: Mal. Nat. J.: f. 413
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 118
BURK. & HEND. 1928 – In: Gard. Bull. S. S.: 315
MERR. & PERRY 1942 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 383
CORNER & WATAN. 1969: Ill. Trop. Pl.: 71
Ridl. 1916 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 147
HANSEN 1972: p. 121. – In: Dansk Bot. Ark.: f. 29, 30