ID please, if possible!

[Myrtle]

Hi, this is a long shot as the image isn't great, but can anyone identify, even roughly, what this plant might be? It's growing in Mata air Fortuno on Muna, Sulawesi and here is hopefully a link to the original image.

Many thanks and kudos to anyone who attempts an ID!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
I can't help with the plant, but the spring looks like it is in a Karst limestone landscape and apparently there is an extensive karst area in S. Sulawesi.

cheers Darrel

 

[Myrtle]

Thanks, yes it's for my O. woworae biotope so well spotted (not that I'd expect anything less from you 😄 )- I found this part of the image on google streetview!

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

can't help with the plant

Potamogeton spp.? Possibly Potamogeton malaianus? or Potamogeton wrightii?

cheers Darrel

 

[Myrtle]

Hi all,

Potamogeton spp.? Possibly Potamogeton malaianus? or Potamogeton wrightii?

cheers Darrel

Thanks, I was debating several possibilities on Flowgrow and that was one. I wish I'd chosen a better documented biotope 😆

 

[Tyko_N]

One of these maybe Stuckenia pectinata, Aponogeton lakhonensis, or Potamogeton nodosus? At least those were the most likely candidates I found for Sulawesi on Kew Gardens site.

I wish I'd chosen a better documented biotope 😆

If no one knows then they can't prove you wrong

 

[Myrtle]

I think one of the Potamogeton sp. is the most likely candidate, though other than P. gayii, from South America, I don't think any are either available or suitable for a shallow 60cm tank! I guess I'll have to go for representative .

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,
Even less help, but I used to have a Potamogeton sp. that may <"have been P. malaianus">.

It was a reasonably quick grower, and worked really well in tanks with lots of flow, I had it for about ten years. The down-sides would be that I don't know exactly what it was, I don't know where I got it from and I don't have it now.

The <"LFKC link is now missing">, but "Dee" suggested it might be P. malaianus, and I thought that was likely, in that there was research that suggested that it might be a <"metals hyper-accumulator"> and we had done quite a lot of work with waste water in the preceding time period.

cheers Darrel

 

[Myrtle]

Brilliant! On the plus side, it does look very similar. Wonder if I could get away with substituting it for Hygrophila corymbosa ''Angustifolia''? It kind of looks the same and grows in Sulawesi at least!

 

[Myrtle]

Here's a better image, courtesy of the video @kammaroon kindly found; it looks more grassy, like Eleocharis here:

 

[mort]

I know nothing about the area but with hard water and the look of that, could it be the ubiquitous vallisneria? It looks like it grows more similar to that than eleocharis which tends to be less clumpy. The first picture to my eyes looks very like vallisneria as well because it's very similar to the eel grass we get around here.

 

[Myrtle]

You may be right, I've just stumbled upon "The Ecology of Sulawesi" on Google Books while searching and it's listed along with Najas indica and others, so I think I have my answer