Kai Witte

P.S.: Congrats to Sean, too!

SCMurphy

Kai,

the ID of the flowering clone is:
Cryptocoryne cf. ideii, Budianto, B1088


I also have but not yet flowered:

Cryptocoryne cf. ideii, Budianto, B1064
Cryptocoryne cf. ideii, Budianto, B1087

From Jan's database:

C. ideii, Budianto, Idei A-09, 05 okt 2004, Indonesia, Kalimantan, bast 1064, W of Muara Teweh


This habitat is not tidal. Because there is habiting Betta unimaculata, too.
This habitat is small stream 1m width.<It was dried up this time> Grows distance only about 100m.
This stream is tributary to flow into about 6m river width. The grow soil is all most same as B-10A/B.
Has the flower same as B-10A. The fruit which matured is very big<diameter>, it is becomes about more than two times of Kettle diameter !<It is like cordata fruit>
Therefore, former B-10A can be said not matured fruit.-<Hendra photo and herbarium>. I was open fruit by myself on the habitat, and the seed has already germinated in the fruit. I did not find other habitat and C.fusca. I made "only one Herbarium" and photograph.


I don't have the complete data for the other two clones.



Cavan, I'll try to get a pic of the other plant and flower.

Khamul1of9

Very nice flower and great info on habitat! Thanks

Kai Witte

Hello Sean,

Budianto is the author who described C. ideii (translation of the article: http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/Cry...ii_English.doc). I usually omit the author's name(s) since this invariably leads to confusion but if need be you can always find this info behind the scientific name on Jan's crypt pages ...

Those B numbers are Jan's own catalog numbers - better write them Bast.1064, etc.; the whole provenance may look like this (that was one of the plants I gave you at the last ECS meeting): *yourself* <- Witte (KEW 5111) <- Jacobsen <- Bastmeijer (Bast. 1064) <- Idei (A-09).

This plant does not come from the type locality and has been referred to as C. cf. ideii since its exact identity still needed to be proven.

BTW, in Sabah I collected a member of the Betta unimaculata species group from a swamp at sea level just adjacent to the beach...


Bast. 1088 is indeed the green clone from Sekadau (NT 0405); Bast. 1087 is the brown clone from the same locality (NT 0404). This crypt (both clones) is pretty much intermediate between ideii and ferruginea AFAIK. A very nice crypt...

I prefer to use the original collector's code when identifying a given crypt but Jan's code is also widely known.

SCMurphy

Correction, it was the B1087 that flowered.

SCMurphy

C. alba has flowered. B688 It's Jan's but from a horticultural source. Growing in a soil clay mix standing in a 1/2 inch of reused aquarium water.

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Ghazanfar Ghori

Nice! You're on a roll!

AaronT

Nice one man. I think you've surpassed us again.

Xema

Nice plant and flower Sean.

Will see you on the 2007 ECS meeting?

SCMurphy

Thanks guys, I'm just taking pics of what the plants feel like growing.

Unfortunately no, I can not afford to hop the ocean again this year. Jim is going this year, and I will probably be able to go again next year.