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Araceae
Philodendron peperomioides G.S.Bunting
SUMMARY
Scandent herb. Old stems with internodes 10.5-12.5 cm long, 0.5 cm diam.; terminal branches leafy and pendent, internodes 0.5-2 cm long, with yellowish, epidermal layer sloughing off. LEAVES apparently distichous. Petiole slender; wings slightly open, apically rounded, prominently ribbed, ca. 0.5 cm wide, ending at or slightly beyond the base of geniculum; geniculum to 0.5 cm long. Leaf blade ca. 3 times longer than petiole, semicoriaceous, in sicco somewhat pliable, narrowly obovate, to 15.5 cm long, 4.6 cm wide (3.4 times longer than wide), flat, base narrowly cuneate, apex gently acuminate with a I mm-long cusp, matte on both faces, midrib slightly elevated on both faces, lateral veins all subequal adaxially, abax-ially with 6 I. lateral veins arising at angle of 35-45°. INFLORESCENCE unknown.