Product information "Philodendron furcatum"
| Name: | Philodendron furcatum, Croat & D.C.Bay 2008 |
| Synonyms: | not known |
| Etymology: | furcatus = the primary lateral veins are prominently forked, therefor the epithet "furcatum" was chosen. |
| Propagation: | division |
| Origin: | Colombia |
| Habitat: | mostly terrestrial, very rarely epiphytic, in warm humid tropical rainforest with dense tree cover along the Pacific Andes in shady to very dark locations at elevations from 100-1500m. |
| Notes: | The type specimen was found in regrowth forests on stream banks in dense shade. The plants found in Ecuador as Philodendron furcatum differ on close examination in so many details from the type specimen that leading botanists here consider the description of a new species necessary. |
