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Araceae
Philodendron hederaceum var. hederaceum
SUMMARY
Hemiepiphyte; internodes 10--25 cm long, 1--2.5(3.5) cm diam., weakly flattened on one side, medium green, minutely speckled to striate or smooth when fresh but drying minutely ridged, greenish; cataphylls 6--10 cm long, unribbed, weakly 1-ribbed or bluntly to sharply 2-ribbed, deciduous intact; LEAVES: petioles (6)10--27(33) cm long, 6--10 mm diam.; blades (11)16--40(50) cm long, 8--24(34) cm wide; upper surface medium to dark green, velvety when juvenile, drying brown to greenish brown, lower surface medium green, glossy, drying gray-green to yellow-green; primary lateral veins 2--6 per side, departing midrib at a 35--55º angle. INFLORESCENCES with peduncle (2)4--16 cm long; spathe 9--17(20 cm long, spathe usually green, sometimes yellowish white, spathe blade sometimes tinged purple outside; spathe tube dark, sometimes tinged reddish maroon outside; spadix stipitate to 5 mm, 12--18 cm long; ovary 4--6-locular, 20--25 ovules per locule. INFRUCTESCENCES with many seeds per locule.