Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 2007 |
Authors: | Mora, M., Croat T. Bernard |
Journal: | Willdenowia. Mitteilungen aus dem Botanischen Garten und Museum Berlin-Dahlem. Berlin-Dahlem |
Volume: | 37 |
Start Page: | 541 |
Pagination: | 545 |
ISSN: | 0511-9618 |
Keywords: | aroids, Philodendron fraternum, Philodendron montanum, South America, taxonomy |
Abstract: | Philodendron longirrhizum is described as a species new to science. It is known from the Western, Central and Eastern Cordillera in Colombia and from the Cordillera de Mérida in Venezuela, occurring in montane tropical forests at 1650 to 2500 m elevation. The species is a member of P. subg. Philodendron sect. Macrobelium subsect. Glossophyllum ser. Ovata. It is similar to and distinguished from P. montanum and P. fraternum. |
DOI: | 10.3372/wi.37.37212 |
Full Text | Recent use of a newly constructed key to the genus Philodendron by the first author has shown that one of the more common montane species in Colombia and Venezuela is undescribed. The species is similar to and distinguished from P. montanum Engl. and P. fraternum Schott, two other montane species. |