Dischidia diphylla
A Philippine ant-plant Dischidia known from southern Luzon (Mount Bulusan, Sorsogon) and Mindoro (Mount Halcon). Its large, overlapping leaves sit pressed against the bark, and it has yellow flowers. The name, given by Elmer, was never validly published, and very little is recorded about it, so grow it like other bark-hugging epiphytic Dischidia: warm, humid, bright-shaded and mounted.
Where it grows wild
Herbarium specimens come from the forested slopes of Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon and from Mount Halcon on Mindoro. It is an epiphyte whose overlapping leaves hug tree bark and shelter ants, which typically nest beneath such leaves.
No elevations are recorded on the specimens. The Bulusan collections were made from Irosin at the mountain's foot, and the Halcon specimens from a base camp whose coordinates fall near 1,900 m on the mountain, so the species may span lowland to lower montane forest.
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