Araceae

Philodendron Schott

First published in Wiener Z. Kunst 3: 780 (1829), nom. cons.
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Mexico to Tropical America.

Distribution

Native to:

Argentina Northeast, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cayman Is., Central American Pac, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Windward Is.

Introduced into:

Bangladesh, Cook Is., Hawaii, Seychelles, Society Is.

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

CATE Araceae

  • Mayo, S.J., Bogner, J. & Boyce, P.C. 1997. The genera of Araceae. 370 pp.
  • Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2008. World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Whitmore, T.C. [775], Ecuador 22817.000 No
Whitmore, T.C. [750], Ecuador 22818.000 No
Whitmore, T.C. [797], Ecuador 25076.000 No
Pennington, T.D. [1542], Ecuador 25755.000 No
Whitmore, T.C. [776], Ecuador 25842.000 No
Whitmore, T.C. [747], Ecuador 26137.000 No
29047.046 No
29047.345 No
Edwards, P.J. [1421], Guyana 41746.000 No
Edwards, P.J. [1374], Guyana 43765.000 No
45796.000 No
45998.000 No
Ecuador 46111.000 No
Edwards, P.J. [1117], Guyana 46205.000 No
Plowman, T. [5938], Peru 46262.000 No
Plowman, T. [2108], Colombia 46266.000 No
Brazil 46274.000 No
Brazil 46287.000 No
Mayo, S. [in C. Hatsch], Brazil 46290.000 No
Mayo, S. [in Hatschbac], Brazil 46292.000 No
Brazil 46366.000 No
Leppard, M.J. [1378], Colombia 49965.000 No
Lewis, G.P. [1403], Brazil 54025.000 No
Harley, R.M. [25137], Brazil 54486.000 No
Harley, R.M. [25137], Brazil 54537.000 No
Nelson Roas et al [Arac.2], Brazil 58019.000 No
Roas, N. [Arac.2], Brazil 58030.000 No
Mayo, Brazil 58066.000 No
Mayo [757], Brazil 58080.000 No
Mayo [727], Brazil 58083.000 No
Mayo [790], Brazil 58087.000 No
Mayo [757], Brazil 58091.000 No
Mayo [803], Brazil 58092.000 No
Mayo [737], Brazil 58095.000 No
58097.000 No
Mayo [722], Brazil 58100.000 No
Mayo [791] 58118.000 No
58138.000 No
58139.000 No
Mayo [709], Brazil 58915.000 No
Hetterscheid 58917.000 No
59007.000 No
Mayo [727] 59009.000 No
59011.000 No
59020.000 No
59021.000 No
59022.000 No
59069.000 No
59101.000 No
59262.000 No
60551.000 No

Sources

  • Art and Illustrations in Digifolia

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew

  • 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

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images