Bucephalandra

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Bucephalandra
Bucephalandra botanical drawing.png
1858 illustration[1]
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe:
Genus: Bucephalandra
Schott 1858
Synonyms[2]

Microcasia Becc.

Bucephalandra is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. There are 30 species of Bucephalandra which have been discovered in Borneo and have been formally described by and .[3][4][5] Most of the species are found in Borneo.[3] Bucephalandra are usually found growing as dense mats over stones or rocks in streams or rivers in moist tropical forest.[3][6]

Etymology[]

Bucephalandra is derived from Greek words, βοῦς (bous; bull or cow), κεφαλή (kephalē; head) and ἀνήρ (anēr; man), referring to the shape of the single male (staminate) flowers.

Description[]

These rheophytic (very seldom facultative) herbs can be minute to rather large, about 2 cm to 60 cm tall. Their stems are creeping and rooting, with a few or many leaves. The leaves can be quite delicate or tough and their shapes can be elliptic, oblong, linear, oblanceolate or obovate. Most of the leaf surfaces are rather glossy and the colours of the leaf range from dark blue-green to green, often with white to yellow to red tinges or spots on the back of the leaves. Inflorescence can be solitary or in pair to several. Spathes are mostly white with flush (a few of them are yellow) and shapes can be ellipsoid to lanceolate, narrowing to a point. The limbs (upper part of spathes) drop off during staminate anthesis, leaving the persistent funnel-shaped lower part of the spathe. Spadix consist of a few or no pistillodes at the base, pistillate zone, a few rows of scale-like motile staminodes (interstice staminodes), staminate zone, and appendix. Pistils are depressed globose or depressed trapezoidal in shape, 1-locular and with many ovules. Stamens consist of short filaments with thecae at the tip, dehiscing by a pore. Pollens squeezed out from the theca pore like a droplet. Fruits are berries with round to ellipsoidal shapes. [3]

Anthesis and role of interstice staminodes[]

The scale-like motile staminodes sandwiched by pistillate and staminate flower zones are called interstice staminodes. These staminodes play a role in controlling pollinators' access to the pistillate flower zone and to protect the developing fruits.[3]

During pistillate anthesis, the spathe inflates to create a slit in the limb, stigmas become sticky and emit odour to attract pollinatros, and the interstice staminodes and thecae erect, allowing pollinators to access pistillate zone. When stigmas become non-receptive, the interstice staminodes begin to lower and seal off the lower spathe.

During staminate athesis, the staminate flower thecae point upward and emit odour. Shortly after that, the limb splits away from the lower spathe, coincidentally pollen droplet extrudes from the tips of the theca horns.

Once the fertilization is successful, the interstice staminodes become photosynthetic, thicken, and harden until the fruits are fully developed. The enlarged berries push the staminodes up and staminodes shed away. The fruits are exposed and quickly become gooey pulp embedded with seeds.[3]

Seed dispersal of Bucephalandra[]

The seeds of Bucephalandra are dispersed by splash-cup mechanism; water droplets splash into the funnel-shape lower spathe and this motion ejects the seeds. The seeds will then anchor on the mosses or tiny fissures on the surrounding rock.[3]

Species[]

  1. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  2. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  3. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  4. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  5. P. C. Boyce, Bogner & Mayo
  6. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  7. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  8. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  9. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  10. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  11. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  12. Bogner
  13. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  14. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  15. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  16. H. Okada & Y. Mori
  17. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  18. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  19. Schott
  20. (M. Hotta) S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  21. (M. Hotta) S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  22. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  23. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  24. (Becc.) P. C. Boyce & S.Y. Wong
  25. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  26. Engl. ex S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  27. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  28. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  29. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  30. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce
  31. S.Y. Wong & P. C. Boyce

References[]

  1. ^ Josef Seboth. Litography: O. Sommer (artist) - Genera Aroidearum exposita by Schott, Heinrich Wilhelm. Vindobonae: Typis Caroli Ueberreuter
  2. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Yeng, Wong Sin; Boyce, Peter C. (2014-08-02). "Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) of Borneo XXX — New species and combinations for Bucephalandra" (PDF). Willdenowia. 44 (2): 149–199. doi:10.3372/wi.44.44201. ISSN 0511-9618. S2CID 86523382.
  4. ^ Yeng, Wong Sin; Boyce, Peter C. (2014-12-05). "Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) of Borneo XXXXI: Additional new species of Bucephalandra" (PDF). Willdenowia. 44 (3): 415–421. doi:10.3372/wi.44.44312. ISSN 0511-9618. S2CID 86281226.
  5. ^ Wong, Sin Yeng; Boyce, Peter C. "Studies on Schismatoglottideae (Araceae) of Borneo LVII: Bucephalandra filiformis – a new species from Maligan, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo" (PDF). Aroideana. 39: 56–60 – via aroid.org.
  6. ^ Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.


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