Adelonema wallisii | |
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Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Alismatales |
Family: | Araceae |
Genus: | Adelonema |
Species: | A. wallisii
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Binomial name | |
Adelonema wallisii Regel
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Adelonema wallisii (synonym Homalomena wallisii) is a species of flowering aroid plant (family Araceae) native to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.[1][2][3]
It reaches about 6" (15 cm) in height, but with a much wider horizontal spread. The leaf blades are elliptic to ovate-oblong in shape about 5 - 8" (13 – 20 cm) in length, on rather short stalks, arching or recurving, bright-green with a markings of a marbled yellow.[4] It can be confused with the related genera Aglaonema or Dieffenbachia, especially Aglaonema pictum 'Tricolor' or Dieffenbachia 'Reflector', both of which have similar markings.[citation needed]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Adelonema wallisii", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-08-11
- ^ 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.
- ^ Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá
- ^ Regel, Gartenflora 26: 33 (1877)
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