Grows from southwestern Nicaragua to Costa Rica.
","source":"CATE Araceae","sourceTaxonKey":141422999},{"key":465039652,"taxonKey":2872333,"type":"general","language":"eng","description":"Epiphytic climber; internodes 1.5-7.0(-11.0) cm x 8-15 mm; cataphylls subcoriaceous, reddish brown, 3.5-10.0 cm long, rounded at apex, with thick sub-apical apiculum ca. 4 mm long, decomposing into fibers, persistent. LEAVES spreading; petiole 14.5-58.0 cm x 2-6 mm, terete (narrowly flattened); geniculum 1.0-2.5 cm x 3-5 mm, weakly sulcate, drying conspicuously darker than petiole; blades ovate-triangular, lobed to 5-18 cm from the base, subcoriaceous, (14-)22-58 x (7-)20-58 cm, dark green above, much paler, silvery-green, below, semiglossy on both sides, densely covered with white linear raphides on upper surface, base broadly arcuate to truncate; central lobe ovate to oblong-ovate, 17-45 x 8-20 cm, apex acuminate; midrib raised above, angled, diminished and sunken at apex, raised below, angled; primary lateral veins 5-8 per side, straight, raised to weakly sunken above, rounded, raised below, departing midrib at 30-45°; tertiary veins less conspicuous; collective veins arising from the first pair of basal veins, 3-5 mm from the margin, sunken above, prominulous below; lateral lobes spreading, (90-)110-130° from central lobe, (4-)10-29 cm x (4-)6-18 cm, apex broadly rounded, inner margin straight to weakly concave, outer margin convex; basal veins 3-5 pairs, the first usually free, the remaining joined for 2-5 cm; posterior ribs straight to weakly curved upward, 90° from midrib, naked for up to 4 cm. INFLORESCENCE erect; peduncle 13-28(-37) cm x 3-6 mm, shorter than petiole; spathe pale green, oblong-lanceolate, 8-20(-28) x 0.9-3.0 cm, apex long-acuminate, base truncate; stipe 0.5-2.5 cm long; spadix yellow-green to bright yellow, narrowly long-tapered, 7-26 cm long, 6-9 mm diam. at base, 3-5 mm diam. at apex; 4-8 flowers per principal spiral, 4-lobed, ca. 2.0 x 2.5 mm, sides jaggedly sigmoid; tepals glossy, lateral tepals ca. 1 mm wide, inner margin rounded, outer margin bluntly angled; stamens not exserted; anthers ca. 1.5 x 1.0 mm, thecae elliptic, slightly divaricate; pistil weakly emergent; stigma brush-like, ca. 0.3 mm long. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent, becoming red-purple, to 40 cm long, 1.0-1.5 cm diam.; fruits violetpurple at apex, white at base, obovoid, acute at apex, ca. 5 x 3 mm.
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