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A single pond, fed by a spring in the limestone
area. In the background a patch of C. noritoi. Note the blue slipper besides it.
coll. Takahashi NT 0317
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The same pond with a close up of the emersed
growing plants.
coll. Takahashi NT 0317
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Another spring with the typical ´blue water´
what is common for these limestone springs.
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In the stream that runs off of the spring
(picture left) big patches of C. noritoi are found.
coll. Takahashi NT 0401
photo Takahashi
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The transition of emersed to submersed stands of C. noritoi.
coll. Takahashi NT 0401
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Note the pronounced furrows in the leaf of C.
noritoi, this feature remains also in cultivated plants.
coll. Takahashi NT 0401
photo Takahashi
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C. noritoi grows together with small
stands of Ceratopteris, Blyxa and Hygrophyla. In the stream also big
stands of Piptospatha are present.
coll. Takahashi NT 0401
photo Takahashi
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A semi emersed plant of C. noritoi. The
spathe stands on a long peduncle, up to 10 cm
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Semi-emersed plants with a spathe on a long (up
to 10 cm) peduncle.
coll. Takahashi NT 0401
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A more upright limb of the spathe with a more
orange color.
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An emersed specimen with an almost sessile
spathe. Note the furrows on the limb of the spathe.
coll. Takahashi NT 0401
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A spathe with an almost for 90 degrees bent limb
of the spathe.
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photo Takahashi
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The following pictures are from cultivated
specimen. Note the brown markings at the lower side of the leaves on this plant. The ruler
is in cm.
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The leaves are grass green on the upper side,
the lower side is 'normally' pale green. The limb of the spathe is a bit bend sideward.
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The leaf blade has furrows (depressions) along
the main veins.
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Also in cultivation, C. noritoi has a
long peduncle, what is seldom seen in emersed cultivated plants.
coll. Takahashi NT 0317, cult. SW 201
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While ripening, the bud is erect and almost
hidden by the cataphyls. The ruler is in cm.
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A freshly opened limb of the spathe. It will
bend 45 to almost 90 degrees.
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Note the slight constricted upper part of the
kettle.
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The color of the limb may vary from brownish to
orange to yellow.
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photo Wongso
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The surface of the limb of the spathe is covered
with fine brownish protuberances.
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The limb seen from the back. Note the two
pronounced furrows almost over the full length.
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The furrows over the limb may be less pronounced
or even absent.
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Detail of the limb showing brownish
protuberances on a creme background.
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A length section of the transition of the very
short tube to the limb of the spathe. There is no collar.
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A length section of the kettle showing the
female flowers at the bottom and the make flowers at the top of the spadix. Note the
slight constriction in the upper part of the kettle.
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Less constricted and showing the (whitish to)
yellowish flap which covers the male flowers. Note the length furrows in the kettle wall,
normal in a spathe of a few days old.
coll. Takahashi NT 0317, cult. SW 201
photo Wongso
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A hardly constricted kettle. The lower part of
the kettle may be densely red spotted.
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The styles with the stigmas bent down after
ripening. The small (greenhouse) insects apparently like the taste.
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Stained pollen of C. noritoi show a
fertility of more than 90%.
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Line drawing of C. noritoi. Note the
relative long peduncle of the spathe.
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drawing Line Jacobsen
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Distribution of C. noritoi in East
Kalimantan.
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At first glance C. noritoi has some resemblance with C. moehlmannii,
a native from the west coast of Sumatra, by its even green leaves and the oblique limb of
the spathe. Details of the spathe are however quite different and also the pronounced
furrows on the leaf of C. noritoi are distinguishing. The chromosome number of C.
noritoi is 2n = 34 in contrast to C. moehlmannii which has 2n = 30.
As C. noritoi grows in a limestone area, the water is very hard and the pH
reaches up to around 8. Surprisingly, it also grows well in a rather acid soil of
decomposed leaves of of the beech tree (Fagus sp.). For that reason it may be a
very good aquarium plant.
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Literature.
- Wongso, S. & J.D. Bastmeijer, 2005. Cryptocoryne noritoi Wongso (Araceae),
eine neue Art aus Ost-Kalimantan (Indonesien). Aqua-Planta 30(3): 92-100.(document service)
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