Philodendron goeldii G.M.Barroso
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Araceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Species Description - Appressed to somewhat scandent epiphytes. Roots pendent and extending to ground, knobby, 1-1.5 cm diam., the vascular bundle 5-lobed but much less distinctively so than those of P. solimoesense. Stems to >1 m long, the petiole scars somewhat scalloped in age with one acicular scale below each scar, the internodes moderately short, 2.5-8 cm diam.; cataphylls unribbed, to 50 cm long, deciduous. Leaves pedately compound; petiole 70-120 cm long, subterete, to twice as long as blade, faintly striate, sheathing to 10 cm length; blade somewhat reniform in outline, the leaflets 7-20, oblong, ± sessile, dispersed along rachis on either side of medial leaflet, diminishing in size toward margin, arched and drooping from central rachis, their margins turned upward toward base, the medial leaflet 18-50 X 5-10 cm. Inflorescences 1 per axil, the peduncle shorter than spathe, mostly hidden by sheath; spathe green throughout abaxially, cream adaxially, 11-24(30) X 3-5(6) cm.
Distribution and Ecology - Fl (perhaps year round), immature fr (Jan-Apr), mature fr (Nov); scattered but common, usually occurring very high in canopy and rarely seen from ground.