Araceae
Philodendron

Philodendron appunii G.S.Bunting

First published in Phytologia 60: 310 (1986)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. Venezuela. It is a climber and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

Distribution
Venezuela, Distrito Federal.
General Description
Scandent herb. Stem up to 3.6 cm diam. flowering internodes 3-5 cm or even longer. Cataphylls 31 cm long falling early. LEAVES: Petioles subterete but adaxially flattened-convex, near the apex more or less 3-angular, 37-44 cm long, 1.3 cm thick at halfway, becoming reddish at apex, sheathed part 4.5-8 cm long, one side of the sheath near the apex up to 2.2 cm wide. Leaf blade perpendicular from the petiole, coriaceous, ovate-triangular in outline, up to 43-59 cm long, 18-25.5 cm wide, obtuse towards the apex, the apex itself acuminate, (2 cm), subsagittate towards the base with posterior lobes, apices obtuse, separated by a deep parabolic sinus, on the outer margins of the lobes, one strongly concave, the other convex. Primary lateral veins 6-7 on both sides, departing about 65-80º, reddish abaxially, minor veins all subparallel. INFLORESCENCES up to 5. Peduncles 7.5-9 cm long. Spathe 14-15.5 cm long, tube 7 x 2-2.3 cm, externally carmine red, blade green at the top, ivory/carmine-suffused or -punctate; inside tube deep cherry-coloured, continuing to the base of the blade upwards, the blade ivory. Spadix subequal to the spathe. Stipe pink, 0.3 cm at the back, 0.8 cm at the front; female zone 4.2 cm long, sterile male zone 1.2 cm long, fertile zone 6.5 cm long. Pistillate flowers: ovaries 6-7 locular, locules uniovulate. Staminate flowers 4-3-androus.
[CATE]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • CATE Araceae

    • Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0