published in: | Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunst, Litteratur, Theater und Mode 1829(3): 780. 1829. | ||||
distribution: | Neotropics - Mexico to Argentina | map: | |||
subfamily: | Aroideae | tribe: | Philodendreae | ||
no. of species: | 482 (estim. 700) | cultivars: | many cultivars & hybrids | ||
chromosome count: 2n=26, 30, 32, 34, 36, 48, 54 | |||||
morphology: | epiphytes, hemiepiphytic climbers, creeping and arborescent geophytes leaves entire to bipinnatifid, emerging from cataphylls higher order venation parallel-pinnate, flowers unisexual without perigone. | ||||
similar genera: | Anthurium |
goeldii | hastatum | hederaceum | var. micans | var.miduhoi | 'Brasil' | 'Frilly Philly' | "holtonianum" |
inaequilaterum | insigne | linnaei | mamei | martianum | mayoi | melanochrysum | melinonii | microstictum |
ochrostemon | panduriforme | pedatum | radiatum | rugosum | sagittifolium | serpens | speciosum | spiritus-sancti |
squamiferum | stenolobum | tatei 'Congo' | tortum | undulatum | verrucosum | warszewiczii | 'Flavum' |
'McDowell' | 'Pincushion' | 'Red Empress' | other cultivars | inflorescences |
2011-04-27 |