Hydnophytum moseleyanum
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| Smooth ant plant | |
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| Foliage, flowers and fruit | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Gentianales |
| Family: | Rubiaceae |
| Genus: | Hydnophytum |
| Species: | H. moseleyanum |
| Binomial name | |
| Hydnophytum moseleyanum | |
Hydnophytum moseleyanum, commonly known as smooth ant plant, is a plant in the coffee and gardenia family Rubiaceae native to the Philippines, New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula in Australia. It is an epiphyte that inhabits mangrove forest and rainforest, and it forms a symbiotic relationship with certain species of ants.[4]
This species was first described in 1884 by the Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari, and published in his book Malesia.[5]
