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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/31/2012)
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Species
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PHILODENDRON GUTTIFERUM Kunth
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. P1. 3:51. 1841.
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Synonym
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Philodendron rigidifolium Krause, Pflanzenreich IV. 23Db:7, fig. I, G-M. 1913. Philodendron -calderense Krause, Pflanzenreich IV. 23Db:8. 1913.
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Description
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A large or small, epiphytic vine, the caudex stout, often 1 cm. in diameter, the internodes 1-2.5 cm. long, or the lower ones longer; petioles stout and succu- lent, 5-14 cm. long, the sheath broad, green, rounded at the apex, extending to the base of the blade, usually persistent; blades thinly coriaceous when dried, elliptic-oblong to broadly oblong or rounded-ovate, mostly 10-18 cm. long and 6-12 cm. wide, obtuse to rounded at the apex and abruptly cuspidate or cuspidate- acuminate, broadly rounded to subacute at the -base, the primary lateral nerves 8-10 on each side, usually divergent at a wide angle but sometimes very oblique, scarcely stouter or more conspicuous than the secondary and tertiary ones; pedun- cles stout, 1-3 cm. long; spathes oblong, greenish or yellowish green, often cream- colored or white, 8-19 cm. long, the tube elongate, oblong, the limb open at anthesis, short-acuminate, coriaceous when dried; spadix sessile, cream-colored, cylindric, 10-16 cm. long, the pistillate portion about one-third as long as the staminate, the latter attenuate upward; pistils narrowly oblong, 4-celled, the ovules mostly 4-seriate; stamens 3-4.
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Distribution
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On trees in wet forest, usually near sea level, Honduras to Panama and French Guiana.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Island, Standley 4096i; Wetmore d Woodworth 22; hills north of Frijoles, Standley 27477, 27545; near Gatuin, Standley 27214. COLON: Rio Sirri, Trinidad Basin, Pittier 4013 (TYPE of P. rigidifolium). CHIRIQUf: forests around El Boquete, 1000-1300 m., Pittier 3150 (TYPE of P. calderense); Davidson 685. BOCAS DEL TORO: Western River, Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 2698; Old Bank Island, Chiriqui Lagoon, Wedel 1946.
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Note
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The name Cinchadora is said to be given in the Zone to this plant. After careful survey of the rather ample Central American material of this group now available for study, and after consideration of the characters upon which Krause's two Panama species were based, it seems best to consider the three names cited as' representing a single species, which also has as synonyms probably a number of other species considered distinct by Engler and Krause. Illustrated, Pflanzenreich IV. 23Db: fig. 3, A-G.
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Common
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Cinchadora
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