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  Piptospatha insignis N.E.Br.
From: "Peter C. Boyce" <phymatarum at gmail.com> on 2015.05.07 at 01:03:26(23305)

Type species of Piptospatha - Piptospatha insignis N.E.Br. - refound in the
wild a few years ago for the first time in more than 130 years.

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From: "PlantsAndStuff.com" <ironious2 at yahoo.com> on 2015.05.07 at 07:35:51(23308)
Beautiful Dr.Boyce

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From: "D. Christopher Rogers" <branchiopod at gmail.com> on 2015.05.07 at 14:28:36(23310)
Very nice!! Glad this plant is still around! It is lovely.

On 6 May 2015 at 20:03, Peter C. Boyce wrote:

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From: "Peter C. Boyce" <phymatarum at gmail.com> on 2015.06.19 at 06:43:35(23423)

The Type species of Piptospatha - Piptospatha insignis N.E.Br. Unique in the
genus, as currently defined, by the much-extended stamen connective.

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From: "Ertelt, Jonathan B" <jonathan.ertelt at Vanderbilt.Edu> on 2015.06.19 at 19:06:02(23426)
Peter,

In the fifth image of the series showing Piptospatha insignis, there is I
believe a palmate divided fern going out of focus on the left side of the
image, and numerous fern sporlings on the rock on the right side. If this is
the same fern which I just came across in Queensland, AU then it feels like
plastic, and has predominantly separate fertile spikes. Are you by any
chance familiar with this fern, even just to knowing its name?
TIA

Jonathan

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From: brian lee <lbmkjm at yahoo.com> on 2015.06.19 at 20:50:14(23428)
Dear Jonathan,

Aloha.

It looks like the genus, Dipteris, which I saw in higher elevation forests of Northern Luzon, in the Philippines. It may be in this genus. If not, you should know about Dipteris, as it is an incredible genus that I rarely see cultivated. In the mountains of Luzon, it covers entire hillsides in association with small Pinanga palms and Nepenthes pitcher plants.

Aloha,

Leland

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From: Adam Black <epiphyte1 at earthlink.net> on 1970.01.01 at 00:00:00(23429)
Yes, guessing likely Dipteris lobbiana. I've seen so many spectacular images of it.

Adam

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From: Peter Boyce <phymatarum at gmail.com> on 2015.06.19 at 23:26:05(23430)
Hi Jonathan,

This is Dipteris lobbii, a rheophytic fern with finely divided fronds. We have two Dipteris species here in N Borneo, the other is D. conjugata, a species with much wider divisions that occurs on impoverished soils, often dominating the vegetation.

P.

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From: "Ertelt, Jonathan B" <jonathan.ertelt at Vanderbilt.Edu> on 2015.06.20 at 01:19:05(23433)
Thank you Peter et al. for identifying the fern. Pulling up google and looking at images, I must admit that I like the ones that look a bit fuller and a bit less pine-seedling like.
But I also discovered one image which took me to a different genus entirely - the one that I saw in Australia that looked so similar - the genus I saw there is Schizaea, with the plants the I saw pretty likely being Schizaea dichotoma. But I would have been
hard-pressed to get there without getting the information so willingly contributed, although obviously not aroid-focused. I thank you.

Jonathan

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