Aquatic & semi-aquatic plants of Borneo

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Thanks aquarius & Simon....

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Back to southern Sarawak....just found another beautiful river which got a lot of Ooia grabowskii last weekend (Feb 2011):








Habitat:

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Another nice river not far away from the one above....




Waterfall...





Found the giant sized Bucephalandra motleyana!!!

[Demetrius]

Beautiful pics. Thanks a lot for sharing !

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Beautiful pics. Thanks a lot for sharing !

Thankyou.....

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A beautiful blackwater waterfall in Borneo:










Blackwater river:





Plants growing near the river:




Homalomena sp.

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Found a species of semi aquatic fern that I never seen before!!!











Aridarum nicolsonii

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April 2011. First time I found another species of Aridarum in a blackwater mountain stream of Sarawak. It is Aridarum crassum.


The habitat:







Aridarum crassum.

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Another type of aroid which looks like Aridarum is found in higher ground near the stream. It is Homalomena lancea .




The habitat:

[limz_777]

nice updated pics

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nice updated pics

Thanks. :-)

[blue33]

thanks for sharing. very nice stream, damn... how i wish i can see it myself in real life.

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thanks for sharing. very nice stream, damn... how i wish i can see it myself in real life.

Thanks Adrian. Will post more photos next week....

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Aridarum crassum (left) & Homalomena lancea (right):



Homalomena lancea





Also, I found Bucephalandra motleyana which the leaves got "stripes"!!!

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Not all the plants got stripes....most of them are dark green or olive green. First time in my life found Bucephalandra which got stripes! So rare!!!








Habitat:




Mosses & Bucephalandra motleyana:

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Mosses

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Another type of Bucephalandra motleyana. First time found it in blackwater stream!!!

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More pictures of Bucephalandra motleyana "Seri Aman"









In another river, clearwater river.....there is no Bucephalandra at all. The rocks & boulders there are granite. I found out Bucephalandra likes to grow on sandstones and mudstones.

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Here at granite boulders near river, I found Piptospatha elongata.




Inflorescence:








Another species of semi aquatic aroid also growing here. It is a new species of Homalomena:

[ranmasatome]

Mike... your pictures are ALWAYS so tempting!!!!
Thanks for sharing.