AAU Herbarium Database

New Search   Modify Search

Collector Poulsen, A. D.
Number 1576
Collected with Finn Borchsenius
Country Malaysia
Subpart SABAH
County  
Locality Kinabalu Parks, Sayap. Plants collected from compound at parking lot said by park rangers to come from surrounding forest.
Coordinates 6° 10' N 116° 34' E
Minimum elevation (m) 1000
Maximum elevation (m) 1000
Start date 2000/03/20
End date 2000/03/20
Family Marantaceae
Identification Phrynium maximum Blume
Determined by F.Borchsenius
Identification qualifier  
Field notes Terrestrial herb to 3 m, forming large colonies. Sheaths to 80 cm, petiole to 180 cm, lamina broadly elliptic, waxy glaucous, greyish green below. Inflorescence first with brownish-green bracts - later dark brown and withered, bracts, becoming branched c. 20 by 10-15 cm. Flowers pale yellowish white at mouth. Staminodial tube white, petals pale dirty violet-white. Fruits dark brown - olive-green, 2- or 3- locular, 1 seed per locule with greyish arillus with two large lobes (letter indicate inflorescence at base of leaf). Specimen at: SAN, KEP, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Sabah Parks, AAU, K.

This record
Other records of Phrynium maximum

The map displays only records from the Aarhus Herbarium Database.
The records may not represent the full distribution of Phrynium maximum

New Search   Modify Search