Aquatic & semi-aquatic plants of Borneo

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Not far away from grey coloured Bucephalandra, I found an almost grey coloured Schismatoglottis. It could be something new which related to Schismatoglottis multiflora that I found before.



The biotope






Submerged in the water:





under leaf is very nice looking:

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A species of Pellia growing on the wet surface of the rocks there:






A Macodes jewel orchid is growing next to grey Schismatoglottis:






A species of fern growing on the wet rocky surface....probably a Bolbitis???

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Schismatoglottis's inflorescence :




A beautiful type of Bucephalandra motleyana found in Simunjam:




Some leaves got "stripes":

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A Macodes jewel orchid is growing next to grey Schismatoglottis:

The Macodes jewel orchid is nice. I like the pattern on the leaf!

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Thanks Jeff.

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More photos of new type of Bucephalandra found in Simunjam:










Inflorescence:











This one's leaf got mutated??

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More photos of Bucephalandra from Simunjam:















Another type of Bucephalandra found in Seri Aman. The leaf is longer & slender. It is much smaller than the one above.

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Probably Schismatoglottis pudenda on the clay wall in a stream of Seri Aman:









....to be continued.

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Found Crypt. longicauda in another location. Some of the leaves are maroon red & pinkish coloured!






Flowering:








Very big patch of Crypt. longicauda in blackwater drain/ditch:

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Barclaya motleyi....






In another location near Kalimantan - Sarawak border, found Bucephalandra....the leaves here are mixture of grey, dark green, light green & some of them even got "stripes"!







Some looks a bit like Bucephalandra "grey" that I found before in other location:

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close-up of the leaves:










....to be continued.

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Cryptocoryne uenoi first (Sungai Sabal Kruin) & second location (nearby river) were badly disturbed by human activities (logging & forest clearing for oil palm) and killed most of the plants. The silt & mud washed down to the river and covered their leaves, blocking them from sunlight....which is the main cause for killing this water plant. The location at Sabal Kruin was disturbed when they were cutting the trees for setting up new electric poles. The plant can't survive well if they are exposed too much in full sunlight. In order to find new location for this plant, I had to drive very slowly, almost 10km/hour in a damaged dirt road & walked another half an hour to reach a small river near Sarawak-Kalimantan border.

There, I also found Crypt striolata, Barclaya motleyi & Schismatoglottis jelandii.


The second location: Used to be a nice river covered with big patch of Crypt. uenoi. Now it is like a dead river....can't see the river bed & not even a single Crypt. found there! Crypt ferruginea which was found near the riverbank also gone! Sad to see this!!!




To find a new location, I walked more than an hour (go there & back to my car) near the border under the scorching sun:




Found this small river at last when I was almost wanted to give up hope.





First, I only saw a patch of Barclaya motleyi....very common in Borneo:






Then, I saw something else in other spot when I was walking along that small river....




Bingo! It's Cryptocoryne uenoi.....finally, I found it in undisturbed location....Yahoooo!!!!

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Underwater shots of the Crypt uenoi:






nice looking leaf:






Also, I found other Crypt. in other spot:




Crypt. striolata is found here too:

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Schismatoglottis jelandii also found here too! It grows in flood zone of the river....





A Rasbora is swimming pass....

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Just came back from Kalimantan Barat of Indonesian Borneo. Some shots taken at the longest river in Borneo: Sungai Kapuas:







A beautiful waterfall:




A blackwater river....Barclaya motleyi found abundantly here:




Crypt. ferruginea found in another river....the riverbank is very sandy:







2 type of colours at 2 different spots:

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The spathe:





Bucephalandra found at Sanggau area:

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Bucephalandra also found in Sintang area:

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First time found this aroid, Schismatoglottis tecturata at the riverbank of Sanggau & Sintang:











Some leaves are green but some got variegated leaves:

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nice update