Philodendron liesneri G.S.Bunting- Phytologia 60: 320 (1986)
General Description
Appressed climbing hemiepiphyte; internodes short, to 7 cm long, 0.8-3.5 cm diam.; cataphyll green, moderately thin, sharply 2-ribbed, 16.5 cm long, persisting semi-intact at upper nodes, weathering to fibers below. LEAVES with petioles 20-24 cm long, thicker than broad, to ca. 1 cm thick, deeply and narrowly sulcate adaxially, rounded abaxially, the margins rounded adaxially; blades moderately coriaceous, oblong-elliptic to oblong-oblanceolate to ovate-elliptic, 29-32 cm long, 11-14.5 cm wide, acuminate, obtuse to rounded or sub-cordate at base, dark green and semi-glossy above, much paler and matte beneath, drying green; midrib discolorous along its margin, narrowly sunken above, raised beneath, drying paler than the surface; primary lateral veins 6-8, narrowly sunken above, raised below, arising at 70-75° angle, (the lowermost often at a broader angle than those in the middle of the blade) weakly arcuate to the margin, drying paler than the surface; interprimary veins present; minor veins moderately distinct, fine and close. INFLORESCENCES paired; peduncle terete, 2 cm long; spathe (immature) to 9.5 cm long, wine colored outside on spathe tube, green on spathe blade; pistillate flower with 7-8-locular ovary. INFRUCTESCENCE not seen.
Bibliography
- 1 Hokche, O., Berry, P.E. & Huber, O. (eds.) (2008). Nuevo Catálogo de la Flora Vascular de Venezuela: 1-859. Fundación Instituto Botánico de Venezuela.
- 2 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.
- 3 Croat, T.Bernard & Lambert, N." The Araceae of Venezuela. Aroideana. 9 (1-4), (1986).
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