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Philodendron huashikatii Croat
SUMMARY
Hemiepiphytic appressed climber; internodes 1-2 cm long, light tan-brown, semiglossy, with epidermis transversely fissured, peeling; roots few at each node, to less than 10 cm long, drying reddish brown, densely puberulent; drying 5-7 mm wide; cataphylls (6) 9-14 cm × 3-6 mm at base to 2-4 mm wide near apex, drying medium brown to dark olive-green. LEAVES: Petioles subterete, with a dark purple ring at the apex, drying ribbed, (11-15) 18-26 cm × 4-5 mm; blades oblong-oblanceolate, 49 × 14.5 cm, drying dark grayish green to grayish brown, rarely tinged weakly with yellow above, yellowish green to grayish green below, gradually to abruptly long-acuminate at apex, cordulate, sometimes rounded-truncate at the base; sinus to 1.7 cm deep; midrib thickly convex and concolorous above, convex below, drying convex and concolorous above, bluntly acute and brownish below, darker than the surface; primary lateral veins 8-14 per side, arising at 60-90° angle, weakly arched to the margins, drying weakly raised and concolorous above, weakly raised with several weak ribs paler than surface below; minor veins moderately conspicuous, weakly raised and frequently minutely undulate on drying sometimes with weak cross-veins visible below. INFLORESCENCE 1 to 4 per axil; peduncle 4.2-6.5 cm long (13-14 cm long in fruit), drying dark brown, 2.5 mm diam., matte; spathe green, 6.3-8.3 cm long, drying 7-1.7 cm diam., dark yellowish brown, matte; spadix drying reddish brown or cream-tan, 4-9 × 0.5-1 cm at midpoint, pistillate portion 4-5 × 0.8-1.1 cm, pistils 2 × 2 mm, sides ribbed, minutely granular; style 0.8-0.9 mm wide, quadrangular to subrounded, minutely granular on drying at high magnification; stigma funnel-shaped, 0.15 mm diam., raised above the style; ovary 4-locular; ovules 1 per locule; seeds narrowly fusiform, 1.4 × 0.4 mm, tapered weakly toward both ends, light brown.