Hapaline (plant) explained

Hapaline is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It contains 7 species that are found from southern China to Borneo.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

They are usually found growing in humid forests in pockets of humus amongst basalt or limestone rocks. The genus was originally given the name Hapale by Heinrich Wilhelm Schott in 1857, but it was changed to Hapaline a year later when it was discovered that a genus of South American marmosets already had been assigned the name in 1811. Hapaline is unique in that it is the only genus in the tribe Caladieae found in the Old World.^[5]

Species^[1]

1. Hapaline appendiculata Ridl. - Sarawak
2. Hapaline benthamiana Schott - Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
3. Hapaline brownii Hook.f. - Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
4. Hapaline celatrix P.C.Boyce - Brunei, Sarawak
5. Hapaline colaniae Gagnep. - Thailand, Vietnam
6. Hapaline ellipticifolia C.Y.Wu & H.Li - Yunnan
7. Hapaline kerrii Gagnep. - Thailand
8. Hapaline locii V.D.Nguyen & Croat - Vietnam

Notes and References

1. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=96129 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. Boyce, P.C., Sookchaloem, D., Hetterscheid, W.L.A., Gusman, G., Jacobsen, N., Idei, T. & Nguyen, V.D. (2012). Flora of Thailand 11(2): 101-325. The Forest Herbarium, National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department, Bangkok.
4. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=114584 Flora of China Vol. 23 Page 22, 细柄芋属 xi bing yu shu, Hapaline Schott, Gen. Aroid. 44. 1858.
5. Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. .