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Philodendron ornatum Schott
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- Common Name:
- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Country of Origin: Southeast Brazil
- Habitat:
- Description: [syn. P. imperiale Schott; P. Sodiroi Hort. ex Bellair & St.-Leger]
Scandent; internodes less than 1 inch long, to 4 inches in juvenile phase, covered with fibrous remains of scalelike leaves; leaf blades reflexed, broadly ovate, to 2 feet long (much smaller in juvenile phase), deeply cordate, dark green, sometimes splotched with gray, veins red beneath; petioles as long as blades, flat on upper surface, especially toward apex, reddish at apex; peduncle red, with white streaks, spathe 7 inches long, long-subulate apically, cream colored inside, tube green outside, blade suffused with red outside.
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Accession Data:- Accession # 198500012
- Source:
- Accession Date: 12-31-1985
- Bench: 1320 - NEO:Guyana Highlands C
- Qty: 2 confirmed on 08-27-2009
Classification:- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Liliopsida
- SubClass: monocots
- Order: Alismatales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Araceae
- SubFamily: Aroideae
- Tribe: Philodendreae
- SubTribe:
References:Hortus Third, LH Bailey Hortorium, 1976
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