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Hydnophytum grandiflorum Becc.
An epiphytic caudiciform that often houses small vertebrates such as skinks and geckos. (Jebb's H. wilkinsonii.)
Endemic to Fiji on five of the high islands from near sea level to high altitudes in rainforest.
H. grandiflorum Becc. (Odoardo Beccari) Malesia raccolta 2, pp171/2, Tavola 44, (1884). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/.... http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/.... Based on Myrmecodia vitiensis Seemann (Berthold Seemann) a nomen nudum in Bonplandia. Zeitschrift für die gesammte Botanik, vol. 99, p256, (1861). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/.... A. Sm. (Albert C. Smith) Flora Vitiensis Nova: A New Flora of Fiji. Vol. 4, pp241- 244, (1988). http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/....
Spotted on Aug 5, 2013
Submitted on Jul 25, 2015
