Schismatoglottis priapica S.Y.Wong, Kartini & P.C.Boyce

Wong, Sin Yeng & Joling, Jyloerica, 2021, Checklist of aroids (Alismatales, Araceae) from Sabah (Malaysian Borneo), Check List 17 (3), pp. 931-974 : 965

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.15560/17.3.931
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scientific name	Schismatoglottis priapica S.Y.Wong, Kartini & P.C.Boyce
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Schismatoglottis priapica S.Y.Wong, Kartini & P.C.Boyce View in CoL

Material examined. MALAYSIA – Tawau • Lahad Datu, Danum Valley Conservation Area, trail to

Tembaling Falls; 04°56ʹ31″N, 117°48ʹ31″E; 235 m elev., 8 July 2018; Wong Sin Yeng, P.C. Boyce & Kartini Saibeh BORH 2704 (holo SAN, iso SAR)

Identification. Schismatoglottis priapica may not have any species it is clearly related to and is it distinct from its erect and self-supporting stem. Schismatoglottis priapica has unique aerial stems with conspicuously elongated internodes occurs in the Multiflora clade ( Schismatoglottis erecta M.Hotta and Schismatoglottis schottii Bogner & Nicolson ), the Nervosa clade (most species), the Calyptrata clade ( Schismatoglottis convolvula P.C.Boyce , Schismatoglottis niahensis A.Hay), in the still unplaced Schismatoglottis conoidea Engl. and Schismatoglottis evelyniae P.C.Boyce & S.Y.Wong , and in an undescribed species from Mulu National Park ( Boyce et al. 2019).

Distribution and ecology. Endemic to Sabah. Known only from one locality in the Danum Valley Conservation Area. Lowland mixed dipterocarp forest on deep alluvial sandy-loamy soils overlaying Cretaceous deepwater sediments.