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Studies on Homalomeneae (Araceae) of
Peninsular Malaysia II:
An historical and taxonomic review of
the genus Homalomena (excluding Chamaecladon)
Kiaw Kiaw Ng, P.C. Boyce1 and S. Othman
Pusat Pengajian Sains Kajihayat (School of Biological Sciences),
Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
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phymatarum@googlemail.com (corresponding author)
ABSTRACT. An historical and taxonomic review of Homalomena (excluding species assigned
to the Chamaecladon Supergroup sensu Boyce & Wong) for Peninsular Malaysia is presented.
Five species are recognised of which one, H. truncata (Schott) Hook.f. represents a new species
record for the Peninsula. Keys to the Peninsular Malaysian Supergroups and species, and a
taxonomic conspectus, are provided. Three species are illustrated from living plants, and H.
wallichii from the type specimen.
Keywords. Araceae, Homalomena, Supergroup, Peninsular Malaysia
Introduction
Recent publications on Asian Homalomena have focussed on Papuasia (Hay 1999,
Herscovitch & Hay 2003) and East Sunda (Hay & Herscovitch 2002; Boyce & Wong
2008, 2009; Boyce, Wong & Fasihuddin 2010). Until recently, apart from ad hoc
descriptions of new taxa (Baharuddin & Boyce 2005, 2009), little attention has been
paid to the genus in Peninsular Malaysia. Apart from Ridley’s adequate but now outdated account (1925), the only complete review is that of Furtado (1939), an account
marred not least by poor and often confused species’ delimitation.
Hay (1999) provided a concise taxonomic and nomenclatural historical review
of Homalomena in Papuasia. More recently, Boyce & Wong (2008) and Ng et al. (in
press) proposed and elaborated informal supergoups and species complexes as a tool
to aid taxonomic study of this speciose and taxonomically ill-understood genus.
This is a precursory account intended to provide a taxonomically and
nomenclaturally stable framework for the Peninsular Malaysian Homalomena species
belonging to the Homalomena and Cyrtocladon Supergroups (sensu Boyce & Wong
2008). From this platform it is intended to tackle the taxonomy of the numerous
undescribed Peninsular Malaysian species. Species assigned to the Chamaecladon
Supergroup (sensu Boyce & Wong 2008), which account for the majority of the
described species in the Peninsula, present considerable taxonomic and nomenclatural
problems and will be the focus of a future study.
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History of the genus in Peninsular Malaysia
The irst Homalomena species pertinent to Peninsular Malaysia appeared in No.1 of
Jack’s Descriptions of Malayan Plants (Jack 1820) as Calla angustifolia Jack and
C. humilis Jack. Both are now treated as synonyms of Homalomena humilis (Jack)
Hook.f. (Chamaecladon Supergroup – see Boyce & Wong 2008) and fall outside the
scope of this paper.
Grifith (1851a) posthumously established new four species, three in
Homalomena, and one in a new genus, Cyrtocladon Griff. (see also Grifith 1851b).
Two of Grifith’s Homalomena species (H. minor Griff. and H. major Griff.), were
based upon incomplete material from the same locality (Pulau Besar, Melaka),
and since publication have been treated as, and here remain, doubtful. Grifith’s
third species, H. rostrata Griff., with which Cyrtocladon sanguinolentum Griff. is
conspeciic, is a highly variable colonial helophyte widespread in Sunda and with
an extensive synonymy. It has been treated in an account of helophytic Homalomena
(Wong, Boyce & Fasihuddin 2011).
Schott (1856) recognised nine species for Homalomena, with only those
described by Grifith listed for the Peninsula. Schott retained Grifith’s Cyrtocladon,
but made no mention of the species assigned by Jack to Calla .
Schott (1860) recognized 12 species for Homalomena, and a further nine in
Chamaecladon, which he treated as a genus, and no longer accepted Cyrtocladon.
He listed four Homalomena species for the Peninsula, viz. Grifith’s three species (H.
major, H. minor, H. rostrata), and added H. wallichii Schott, which he had described
from Pinang the previous year (Schott 1859).
Engler (1879) recognized 17 species for Homalomena, but made no increase
to the number, nor altered the status, of species in the Peninsula from that of Schott
(1860). Engler treated Chamaecladon as a genus, with 13 species.
Hooker (1893) increased to 23 the number of species in Homalomena, with
17 recorded for the Peninsula and Singapore, of which 12 are in Chamaecladon,
treated as a section. Of the other ive species, Hooker erroneously considered Javan
H. coerulescens Jungh. ex Schott to be present in the Peninsula and within it included
H. major, H, minor, and H. wallichii as synonyms. Notwithstanding that H. minor and
H. major (Grifith 1851) have priority over H. coerulescens (Schott 1856), virtually
all material determined as H. coerulescens by Hooker represents novel taxa. The
remaining species comprise H. paludosa Hook.f., H. rostrata, and H. sagittifolia, now
treated as conspeciic (= H. rostrata), and Peninsular Malaysian and southern Thai H.
pontederiifolia Griff. ex Hook.f.
Ridley’s precursory accounts for the Peninsula (Ridley 1902, 1907) listed 21
species with 17, including H. mixta Ridl. (= Furtadoa mixta (Ridl.) M.Hotta – see
Hotta 1985), treated as belonging to sect. Chamaecladon. The taxonomy of Ridley’s
1907 treatment follows that of Hooker (1893) with the exceptions that H. propinqua
Schott was added to the synonymy of H. sagittifolia, and H. pontederiifolia is treated
as a synonym of H. coerulescens. Ridley (1907) made no mention of H. ridleyana
Engl. (Engler 1907), having presumably not yet seen the publication.
Engler (1912) remains the only complete revision of Homalomena to date.
He recognised 80 species, of which 37 are in sect. Chamaecladon. Excluding those
assigned to Chamaecladon, only six species are recorded for Peninsular Malaysia. One
new species, H. curvata Engl., is added but otherwise the account generally follows
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those of Hooker (1893) and Ridley (1907) in listing H. coerulescens (including H.
major, H, minor, and H. wallichii as synonyms), and maintaining H. paludosa, H.
rostrata, and H. sagittifolia as distinct species. Engler resurrected H. pontederiifolia,
and treated H. ridleyana as a synonym of H. paludosa.
Ridley (1925) treated 24 species, with 20 species in sect. Chamaecladon. The
taxonomy is otherwise as that of Engler (1912) with the exception that Ridley reduced
H. curvata to H. coerulescens, and combined H. pontederiifolia as a variety of H.
coerulescens. Homalomena deltoidea Hook.f. (= H. grifithii (Schott) Hook.f.) is
misplaced in sect. Homalomena (‘Eu-Homalomena’).
Furtado (1939) recognized 58 species, of which 35 were placed in sect.
Chamaecladon, four in Homalomena (‘Eu-Homalomena’), and 18 in Cyrtocladon,
newly treated as a section. Excluding those assigned to Chamaecladon, Furtado
listed four species for the Peninsula, of which three (H. propinqua, H. rostrata, and
H. sagittifolia) are now treated as a single species: H. rostrata. Furtado attempted
to update Ridley (1925) and Engler (1912), in particular to deal with confusion
surrounding early names published for what is now Indonesia, but in fact his account
created more confusion than it resolved. The biggest problem is Furtado’s hopelessly
muddled treatment of Javan H. rubra Hassk., a species absent from the Peninsula, but
into which Furtado subsumed ive Peninsular taxa: H. curvata, H. major, H. minor, H.
pontederiifolia, and H. wallichii.
Conspectus of Homalomena (excluding the Chamaecladon Supergroup)
in Peninsular Malaysia
Homalomena curvata Engl., Planzenr., 55(IV.23Da): 53 (1912). TYPE: Malaysia,
Melaka, (“Malakka”), Wells Hill, bei Kuala Lumpur (but see below), 50 m, Feb 1906,
A. Engler (Reise nach Java und Brit. Indien) n.5292 (holo B!). (Fig. 1)
Notes: Engler’s type locality data are confusing. While Wells Hill (modern Bukit Cina)
is indeed in Melaka, it lies some 120 km SE of Kuala Lumpur. It is probable that
Engler’s labeling led Ridley to not recognise H. curvata as a valid species, since Ridley
appears to have not seen the type and instead based his decision on his collection
(cited by Ridley 1925) of a different species from Weld’s Hill (now renamed Bukit
Nanas, adjacent to Bukit Mahkamah), Kuala Lumpur. It seems that Ridley confounded
Weld’s Hill, Kuala Lumpur with Wells Hill, Melaka. Ironically, Ridley’s Weld’s Hill
collection almost certainly represents an undescribed species. However, the material
is both inadequate and in a poor state of preservation, and thus unsuitable from which
to prepare a description.
A good portion of Bukit Nanas is in the Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve where some
degree of natural vegetation still exists. This is the same hill as St John’s Institution,
Bukit Nanas Convent, and the imposing KL Tower. On the other hand, the present
Bukit Mahkamah used to be called Court Hill (Mahkamah = Court) because the former
High Court Building was situated there (precursor to the Menara Maybank). There
remains a possibility Ridley’s unnamed taxon may have persisted. Bukit Nanas and
Bukit Mahkamah are on opposite sides of a road that used to be called Weld Road
(now Jalan Raja Chulan).
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Fig. 1. Homalomena curvata Engl. A. Plants in habitat. B. Detail of emerging inlorescences.
C. Developing infructescences. D. Detail of abaxial leaf surface showing the diagnostic striate
pellucid secretory canals. E. Holotype (B). A–D from Ng et al. AR-3052. Photo credits: P.C.
Boyce. E from A. Engler 5292. Photo credit: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum BerlinDahlem, Freie Universität Berlin. Used with permission.
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An alternative interpretation is that Engler only wrote “Malakka” because there
was no real country called Malaysia then, and he was in fact referring to Weld’s Hill
near Kuala Lumpur (and then misspelling that as ‘Wells Hill’). If that were the case,
the locality formerly called Weld’s Hill (now Bukit Nanas) used to accommodate at
least two Homalomena spp., not impossible by lowland humid forest and Homalomena
standards. Possible corroboration from Melaka and Bukit Nanas material may become
available.
That no one after Engler recognised H. curvata as a distinct species is remarkable.
Critical examination of the holotype (B), and the irst author’s recent new collections
from the Jerantut Krau Wildlife Centre, Pahang (Ng AR-3052 & Ng AR-3053) leave us
in no doubt that the conspicuous striate pellucid secretory canals running parallel to
the primary lateral veins on the abaxial side of the leaf blade make H. curvata a species
wholly distinct from any other yet described in Peninsular Malaysia.
Homalomena curvata appears to be an outlying representative of a species
complex otherwise centred on N. Borneo, and from where at least a dozen species, in
the main associated with limestone, await description.
Homalomena pontederiifolia Griff. ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 6: 533 (1893).
LECTOTYPE (selected here): Malaysia, Melaka, Air Panas (‘Ayer Punus’) – see
below, W.Grifith 5964 (lecto K!). (Fig. 2)
Notes: As treated here Homalomena pontederiifolia is the commonest of the larger
species in Peninsular Malaysia, but paradoxically poorly represented in herbaria,
possibly because its large and bulky nature dissuades collection. It is very likely that
more extensive collecting and exhaustive study will reveal that the species comprises
several distinct taxa.
Hooker cites three syntypes, of which Grifith’s collection, here selected as
lectotype, is the only one that completely matches the protologue. Grifith’s locality
(‘Ayer Punus’) is almost certainly the same as modern Taman Rekreasi Air Panas
Jasin, Melaka; the specimen was likely collected not long before Grifith’s death from
a parasitic liver disease in Melaka in February 1845, shortly before his 35th birthday.
Of the other syntypes cited by Hooker, D.F.A. Hervey s.n (K!), although sterile,
represents an undescribed species of the Hanneae Complex (see Ng et al., in press),
based on the marcescent margin of the petiolar sheath, and leaf blades with scattered
glandular punctuations (the latter admittedly only faintly discernible). Fr B. Scortechini
s.n. (CAL! K!) approaches H. pontederiifolia, but the inlorescences are only half
the typical length for the species and the material is otherwise too depauperate to be
unequivocally placed taxonomically.
Homalomena rostrata Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 3: 154 (1851) [‘roshalum’]. TYPE:
Malaysia, Melaka, W. Grifith 5989 (holo K!).
Cyrtocladon sanguinolentum Griff., Not. Pl. Asiat. 3: 147 (1851); Chamaecladon
sanguinolentum (Griff.) Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 316 (1860). TYPE: Malaysia,
Melaka, W. Grifith 5990 (holo K!).
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Fig. 2. Homalomena pontederiifolia Griff. ex Hook.f. A. Plant in cultivation, ex Johor, Malaysia.
B. Inlorescence at female anthesis. C. Inlorescence at female anthesis, spathe artiicially
removed. Scale bar = 2 cm. D. Detail of staminate lower zone. Note the well-deined lowers
each with 4–6 anthers and large synconnectives. E. Detail of pistillate lower zone and lower
portion of staminate zone. The lowermost staminate lowers are sterile (staminodes). Note that
interpistillar staminodes equal the pistils in length. A–E from Boyce AR-2355. Photo credits:
P.C. Boyce.
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Homalomena sagittifolia Jungh. ex Schott, Prodr. Syst. Aroid.: 311 (1860). TYPE:
Malaysia, Sabah, Labuan, Motley s.n. (holo K!); epitype (see Wong et al., 2011):
Indonesia, Java, F.F.W. Junghuhn s.n. W†; Schott Ic., no. 2111 (W!). – Fiche no. 44:
a4 in the microiche edition.
Homalomena miqueliana Schott, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 1: 126 (1863).
TYPE: Indonesia: Borneo, Kalimantan, P.W. Korthals s.n. (holo L!).
Homalomena propinqua Schott, Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 1: 280 (1864).
TYPE: Indonesia, Kalimantan, Kalimantan Selatan, Mt. Gintang, P.W. Korthals s.n.
(holo L!).
Homalomena beccariana Engl., Bull. Soc. Tosc. Ortic. 4: 296 (1879). TYPE: Malaysia,
Sarawak, Kuching, Jul 1865, O. Beccari P.B. 260 (holo FI-B!).
Homalomena paludosa Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 531 (1893). LECTOTYPE: Malaysia,
Perak, Larut, H.H. Kunstler (‘Dr King’s Collector’) 3082 (lecto K! isolecto CAL,
SING!).
Homalomena sagittifolia var. pontederiifolia Ridl., J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc.
44: 172 (1905). – Homalomena ridleyana Engl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 37: 123 (1907).
TYPE: Malaysia, Borneo, Sarawak, Kuching, E. Bartlett & G.D. Haviland 3134 (holo
SING!).
Homalomena teysmannii Engl., Planzenr., IV, 23Da: 68 (1912). TYPE: Indonesia,
Sumatera, Bangka Island, J.E. Teijsmann 3227 (holo B! iso BO!).
Homalomena raapii Engl. Planzenr., IV, 23Da: 73 (1912). LECTOTYPE (see Wong
et al., 2011): Indonesia, Sumatera, H. Raap 235 (lecto BO!).
Homalomena triangularis Alderw., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, III, 4: 181 (1922).
TYPE: Indonesia, Sumatera, Deli, 27 Jul 1915, J.A. Lörzing 4071 (holo BO!).
Homalomena sagittifolia var. sumatrana Alderw., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, III, 4:
192 (1922). LECTOTYPE (see Wong et al., 2011): Indonesia, Sumatera, Ophir, Taloe,
10 Apr 1917, H.A.B. Bünnemeijer 129 (lecto BO!).
Homalomena ensiformis Alderw., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, III, 4: 335 (1922).
TYPE: Indonesia, Kalimantan, J.G. Hallier 1465 (holo BO! iso L!).
Homalomena miqueliana var. truella Alderw., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, III, 4: 336
(1922). TYPE: Indonesia, Sumatera, Riau Archipelago, Ampoelai, Pulau Bintang, 14
Jun 1919, H.A.B. Bünnemeijer 6200 (holo BO! iso L!).
Homalomena sagittifolia var. angustifolia Furtado, Gard. Bull. Straits Settlem. 10:
228 (1939). LECTOTYPE (see Wong et al., 2011): Malaysia, Johore, Mt Austin, H.N.
Ridley 12018 (lecto SING! isolecto K!).
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Notes: See Wong et al. (2011) for a detailed discussion and illustrations of this species.
Homalomena truncata (Schott) Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 535 (1893). – Chamaecladon
truncatum Schott, Bonplandia (Hannover) 6: (1858). LECTOTYPE selected here:
Myanmar, Mergui, W. Grifith s.n. (lecto K!). (Fig. 3)
Notes: Schott (1858) cited no material for Chamaecladon truncatum, although the
protologue is explicitly prepared from preserved rather than living plants. Schott’s
description in the Prodromus (Schott 1860) is largely identical to that in Bonplandia,
and further cites two specimens, from Mergui and Tenasserim, both extant in Kew (K).
That chosen as lectotype is autographed by Schott, and is also the better preserved of
the two.
Schott’s placement of H. truncatum in Chamaecladon is at odds with the
morphology of the interpistillar staminodes (exceeding the associated pistils), and the
staminate lowers comprising four stamens and synconnectives. It seems likely that
Schott regarded the rather small, unconstricted spathes as more pertinent to placement
than the iner loral details.
This represents a new record for the Peninsula. Homalomena truncata is a
common species in the north of Peninsular Malaysia occurring in subhumid to humid
forest, often, but not exclusively, associated with limestone.
Homalomena wallichii Schott, Bonplandia (Hannover) 7(3): 30 (1859). TYPE:
Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Aug 1822, N. Wallich EIC 8951 (holo K-W!). (Fig. 4)
Notes: Much as with H. curvata, H. wallichii was reduced to synonymy virtually the
moment it was published, and as with H. curvata one can only speculate as to how
such a distinctive species could have been so treated. The habit of the sterile plant –
with long-petiolate pendent leaf blades (leaf tip directed downwards) recalls that of an
Alocasia – while fertile plants are unmistakable by the exceptionally long peduncle,
with the inlorescence often equalling the preceding petiole. Homalomena wallichii is
very uncommon in the wild, and furthermore appears to be restricted to a very small
area of Pinang, fortunately within the Taman Negara Pulau Pinang (“Muka Head N.P.”)
Inadequately known species
Homalomena major Griff. (‘majus’), Notul. Pl. Asiat. 3: 153 (1851). TYPE: Malaysia,
Melaka, Pulau Besar [‘Pulo Bissar in Sylvis collinis’], Sep 1842. W. Grifith 6011 (K).
Homalomena minor Griff. (`minus’), Notul. Pl. Asiat. 3: 152 (1851). TYPE: Malaysia,
Melaka, Pulau Besar [‘Pulo Bissar in Sylvis collinis’], Sep 1842. W. Grifith 5961 (K).
Notes: These collections are almost certainly the same species, but the material is
inadequate, seemingly preserved late in anthesis (thus many important loral characters
probably already lost) and now too fragile to enable dissection to assign them to any
known plant. A further problem is that Pulau Besar is now much degraded, although
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Fig. 3. Homalomena truncata (Schott) Hook.f., A. Plant in cultivation, ex Kedah, Malaysia.
B. Emerging inlorescences. C. Inlorescence at female anthesis, spathe artiicially removed.
Scale bar = 1 cm. D. Detail of staminate lower zone. Note the well-deined lowers each with
4 anthers and small synconnectives. E. Detail of pistillate lower zone and lower portion of
staminate zone. The lowermost staminate lowers are sterile (staminodes). Note that interpistillar
staminodes subequal the pistils in length. A–E from Boyce AR-2354. Photo credits: P.C. Boyce.
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Fig. 4. Homalomena wallichii Schott. Holotype, K-W. Photo credit: The Trustees, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew. Used with permission.
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certainly an attempt to re-collect at the site must be attempted before these names are
relegated to “nomina obscura”.
Key 1. Peninsular Malaysian Homalomena Supergroups
1a. Spathe at most 1.5cm long, often much less, without a constriction. Staminate
lowers each comprising 2–3 stamens not united by a common connective.
Interpistillar staminodes shorter than the pistils. (Mostly small plants and often
rheophytic.) ............................................................. Chamaecladon Supergroup
1b. Spathe more than 2.5 cm long, often much longer, with or without a constriction.
Staminate lowers each comprising 3–4 (rarely 5–6, very rarely 1) stamens united
by a conspicuous common connective. Interpistillar staminodes equaling or
slightly exceeding the pistils. (Mostly medium to large plants and in the Peninsula
wholly mesophytic.) ............................................................................................ 2
2a. Spathe not divided into a lower and upper portion by a constriction. Inlorescence
movement during anthesis comprising simple gaping and closing of the spathe
limb, with virtually no spadix movement ...............................................................
................................................................. Homalomena Supergroup (see Key 2)
2b. Spathe divided by a moderate to pronounced constriction into a well-deined
upper (limb) and a lower portion. Inlorescences during anthesis with complex
spathe and spadix movements and often spadix elongation ....................................
.................................................................. Cyrtocladon Supergroup (see Key 3)
Key 2. Peninsular Malaysian Homalomena
1a. Flowering plants large, often exceeding 1 m tall. Spathe 8-14 cm long; spadix 7–13
cm long ...................................................................................... H. pontederiifolia
1b. Flowering plants of medium size, seldom exceeding 40 cm tall. Spathe 4–6 cm
long; spadix 5–6.5 cm long ................................................................................. 2
2a. Leaf blade abaxially with conspicuous striate pellucid secretory canals running
parallel to the primary lateral veins. (S Peninsula as far north as S Pahang.) .......
.............................................................................................................. H. curvata
2b. Leaf blade abaxially without striate pellucid secretory canals. (Kedah, Perlis.) .......
............................................................................................................ H. truncata
Key 3. Peninsular Malaysian Cyrtocladon
1a. Colonial helophytes, almost always in peatswamp or the wet facies of kerangas
(kerapah) forest and always in inundated situations ............................H. rostrata
1b. Solitary to clumping forest mesophytes in moist well-drained situations in lowland
perhumid mixed dipterocarp forest ...................................... (numerous sp. nov.)
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The irst author’s research and ieldwork in Peninsular Malaysia
was supported by a Research University Grant 1001/PBIOLOGI/811132 from the Universiti
Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang, Malaysia. The irst author is also grateful for inancial support
supplied by a USM Fellowship. The second author wishes to extend thanks to the Keeper and
staff of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for graciously allowing access to their
collections and for permission to reproduce in this paper images of pertinent specimens. We
wish to express our gratitude to Dr Wong Khoon Meng (SING) for very useful information
regarding Weld’s Hill, and the implications for yet further novel taxa, reproduced above almost
verbatim.
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