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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 KARSTENIANUM Schott
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Syn. Aroid. 78. 1856.
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Description
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A large or small, epiphytic vine, the caudex often 1 cm. or more in diameter, the internodes mostly 2-3 cm. long; petioles 10-20 cm. long, the sheath broad, green, persistent, rounded at the apex, ending 1 to several cm. below the base of the blade; blades thin when dried or somewhat coriaceous, narrowly elliptic- oblong to oblong-ovate, 15-30 cm. long, 7-13 cm. wide, rounded or obtuse at the apex and obliquely cuspidate, broadly rounded to short-cuneate at the base, the primary lateral nerves 7-8 on each side, divergent at a rather wide angle, all very slender or a few slightly more conspicuous than the others; peduncles 2-6 cm. long; spathes green, 6-14 cm. long, the tube ovoid or narrower, the limb whitish within, cuspidate, slightly shorter than the tube; spadix cylindric, borne on a stipe 5-8 mm. long, the pistillate portion 2-5 cm. long, the staminate 3-5 cm. long; pistils ovoid, 3- or 6-celled, crowned by the broadly discoid stigma, the ovules mostly 6-seriate; staminate flowers pale yellow, the stamens usually 3.
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Distribution
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On trees in wet forest, usually near sea level, Panama to Venezuela and Ecuador.
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Note
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Illustrated, Pflanzenreich IV. 23Db: fig. 3, H-P.
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