- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Philodendron Schott
- Species: Philodendron hederaceum (Jacq.) Schott
Philodendron hederaceum var. kirkbridei Croat
- Species: Philodendron hederaceum (Jacq.) Schott
- Genus: Philodendron Schott
This variety is accepted, and its native range is Costa Rica to Ecuador.
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Phenology
- Flowering in Philodendron hederaceum var. kirkbridei occurs during the late dry season and early rainy season (probably as early as March and as late as September) based on post-anthesis and early fruiting collections. No collections have been made at anthesis. Immature fruits have been collected in April, July, and August.
- Habitat
- Premontane wet forest and Tropical wet forest.
- General Description
- Hemiepiphyte; internodes 2--28 cm long, 1--2.5 cm diam., weakly flattened on one side with two sharply raised ribs on the side above petiole, very weakly sulcate on the opposite rounded side, prominently ribbed throughout its circumference, the ribs smooth or prominently warty, 2--28 cm long, 1--2.5 cm diam., medium to dark green, matte, drying reddish brown; cataphylls 6--19 cm long, unribbed or sometimes weakly 2-ribbed, deciduous intact; LEAVES: petioles (6.5)8--22.5 cm long, 3--6 mm diam.; blades (11)16--29.5(42) cm long, (8)10.3-23(35) cm wide; upper surface medium to dark green, drying brown to greenish brown, lower surface medium green, glossy, drying brown to greenish brown; primary lateral veins 3--4 per side, departing mdirib at a 45--50º angle. INFLORESCENCES 1 per axil; peduncle 5.5--7.5 cm long; spathe 14--24 cm long, spathe blades yellow-green becoming cream colored toward apex outside, lighter green inside; spadix stipitate to 1 cm; 13--20 cm long; ovary 5-locular, 20--25 ovules per locule. INFRUCTESCENCE with about 24 seeds per locule.
- Distribution
- Ranges from Costa Rica to Ecuador. The variety has been collected only once in both Suriname and Ecuador. It was collected in Ecuador at Reserva ENDESA (0º5'N, 79º02'W), an area of Premontane rain forest. It is to be expected in Colombia.
Distribution
Other Data
Philodendron hederaceum var. kirkbridei Croat appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 84: 463 (1997)
Accepted by
- Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 1-694. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
- 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.
Sources
CATE Araceae
Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0