Hydnophytum formicarum

Hydnophytum formicarum Jack, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 14: 124 1823. (Syn: Hydnophytum blumei Becc.; Hydnophytum borneense Becc.; Hydnophytum formicarum subsp. blumei Boerl. ………….; Hydnophytum montanum Blume; Hydnophytum montanum var. latifolia Miq.; Lasiostoma formicarum (Jack) Spreng.);
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Indo-China to New Guinea (Waigeo Island): Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam as per POWO;
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The Ant Plant_RKC_180511:
Sending herewith the images of Hydnophytum formicarum Jack, popularly known as the ‘Ant Plant’.
The plant belongs to one of the five known genera of tuberous, epiphytic, myrmecophytes (plant that lives in a mutualistic association with a colony of ants) belonging to the tribe Psychotrieae, subtribe Hydnophytinae of the family Rubiaceae.

In India, it is distributed in Andaman. Recently, it was posted by … also but quality of the photographs were unfortunately not upto the mark.
Recently I came across this plant at Nha Trang city of Vietnam (ca 200msl) and thought of sharing the details with eFlora group.
Distribution: Andaman Island, S. Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Fiji and the Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
Notes: Listed as critically endangered in Vietnam and Singapore. Probably rare in India too.
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Very nice pictures of the interesting plant.

The photographs and info. are great.

Came across this at Sarawak, Borneo. Presume this is the same tree.

Looks same to me!

if it is critically endangered then we should make an effort rescue it through some technique like tissue culture or simply an ex situ conservation effort. those who have access to this plant at any point of time can get some of the tissue sample…

Rubiaceae week: Hydnophytum formicarum at Andaman:
This one is also called as “Ant Plant“.

Thanks … for showing this plant again. More details can be found in the thread

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Flora of Andaman 11- 311210-PKA2: 3 images
I had spotted this almost Football size bulb on a Mangrove tree  at Baratang (Andaman & Nicobar).

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