HYDNOPHYTUM KEBARENSE

This member of the Rubiaceae family was given this name by Camilla Rose Huxley and Matthew H. P. Jebb in 2019. It is found in the Kebar Valley in Western New Guinea, Indonesia, growing as an epiphyte with lots of water and some sun. The caudex can grow to fifteen centimetres in diameter, the entire plant to 40 centimetres in height. The flowers are white. The genera name after Greek hydnon meaning 'tuber' and phyton meaning 'plant', after the swollen branches. The species is named after the valley it was found in; Kebar.