Re: [Aroid-l] Philodendron variifolium Schott

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at exoticrainforest.com> on 2009.11.11 at 14:01:25 Thanks Alison.  If we can get Dr.Croat to respond I believe he would say this is just another of themultiple photo errors in Mr. Graf's books.  I am personally aware ofquite a few including the plant he calls "Philodendron cannifolium"which is correctly Philodendron martianum.   I doubt it willever happen but aroids should totally drop the use of the name"Philodendron cannifolium".  http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Philodendron%20martianum%20pc.html  Theinteresting thing about that error is it may have been caused by Dr.von Martius for whom Philodendron martianum was named!  I do mybest to explain that in the link. If you go to this link you can see a photo of the real Philodendronvariifolium which looks nothing like the plant many of us havegrown using that name which is truly Philodendron brandtianum: http://www.tropicos.org/Name/2103366 I'm still trying to find a specimen of the real Philodendronvariifolium so if any of you have a plant that looks like the theonein these photos please drop me a line. I was able to get a short description of Philodendron variifolium fromthe Kew's CATE Araceae: http://www.cate-araceae.org/index.do;jsessionid=96982249A0181F1EB1E74E6CEB9841D4 LEAVES:Petiole terete, 20-25 cm long, shortly and narrowly sheathed in thelower part. Blade thinly coriaceous, shape decidedly diverse,cordate-oblong or sagittate-oblong, rarely hastate or hastate-oblong,apex with a 1-1.5 cm long cuspid, 20-26 cm long, 6-7 cm wide halfway;posterior lobes very short and very obtuse or elongate-oblong obtuse,separated by a short, wide, very open sinus, apex curved upwards; theposterior ribs in hastate blades are weak, horizontal, curving upwardsin a sigmoid-curve, lateral veins of the anterior lobe all sub-equal. If you read this closely you'll see it does not describe the plantmost growers call Philodendron variifolium. Steve STARSELL@aol.com wrote: Steve,   I have EXOTICA 10 and I am lookingat the photo of Philodendron variifolium.   NOTHING like the link you gave.   Very hard to judge the scale, butit is shaped like the heart-leaf climbers with whiter orlighter shading between the veins.   Does that help?   Alison   In a message dated 11/10/2009 12:43:43 A.M. Central StandardTime, Steve@ExoticRainforest.com writes: Also, if anyone has a copy of Graf's TROPICA or EXOTICA wouldyou check and see if the plant on this page is shown in either of thosebooks as being Philodendron variifolium?  For some time I've beentrying to track down where this error originated although I am aware abeautiful plant was displayed some years ago at an IAS show and Salethat was incorrectly tagged.  Shortly after that happened Dr. Croatexplained the name was incorrect and the correct name was in fact Philodendronbrandtianum. _______________________________________________Aroid-L mailing listAroid-L@www.gizmoworks.comhttp://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l --------------080009070209000700040807

Note: this is a very old post, so no reply function is available.