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Piptospatha
Sign in to savePiptospatha is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is characteristic is rheophytic and has seeds that are dispersed by splashes of water hitting its cup-like spathes. It includes three species native to Borneo. Piptospatha insignis N.E.Br. - Sarawak Piptospatha remiformis Ridl. - Sarawak Piptospatha repens H.Okada & Tsukaya - Kalimantan Barat
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Vinony's link graph records 2 inbound references to Piptospatha, and connects out to plant, International Standard Book Number and Borneo.
It sits within the topics Araceae genera, Endemic flora of Borneo and Schismatoglottideae.
Vinony links it to 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAlismatales
- FamilyAraceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 36
- With media
- 31
- Family
- Araceae
- Collections
- US, MO, A, ANSP, NY, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Malaysia/Sabah, Malaysia/Sarawak
Wikidata facts
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- taxon name
- Piptospatha
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Piptospatha
- Commons category
- Piptospatha
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Encyclopedic overview
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Piptospatha is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. The genus is characteristic is rheophytic and has seeds that are dispersed by splashes of water hitting its cup-like spathes. It includes three species native to Borneo. Piptospatha insignis N.E.Br. - Sarawak Piptospatha remiformis Ridl. - Sarawak Piptospatha repens H.Okada & Tsukaya - Kalimantan Barat
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piptospatha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.