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Thaumatophyllum bipinnatifidum (common names: split-leaf philodendron, [1] lacy tree philodendron, selloum, horsehead philodendron, [2] guaimbé [citation needed]) is a plant in the genus Thaumatophyllum, in the family Araceae. Previously it was classified in the genus Philodendron within subgenus Meconostigma.
Philodendron is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. As of June 2013, the Plants of the World Online accepted 621 species; [2] other sources accept different numbers. [3] [4] Regardless of number of species, the genus is the second-largest member of the family Araceae, after genus Anthurium.
Thaumatophyllum (formerly Meconostigma) is a genus of flowering plants in the arum family, Araceae. Its species are native to northern (tropical) South America. Its species are native to northern (tropical) South America.
Thaumatophyllum xanadu is a perennial plant belonging to the arum family Araceae and the genus Thaumatophyllum, formerly classified under the Meconostigma subgenus of Philodendron. This plant is native to Brazil, but is widely cultivated as a landscape plant in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates.
Thermogenic plants are found in a variety of families, but Araceae in particular contains many such species. Examples from this family include the dead-horse arum ( Helicodiceros muscivorus ), the eastern skunk cabbage ( Symplocarpus foetidus ), the elephant foot yam ( Amorphophallus paeoniifolius ), elephant ear ( Philodendron selloum ), lords ...
Within the Araceae, species are often rhizomatous or tuberous; many are epiphytic, creeping lianas or vining plants, and the leaves and tissues of the entire plant nearly always contains irritating calcium oxalate crystals or raphides, in varying degrees. [4] [5] The foliage can vary considerably from species to species.
Aroideae is a subfamily of flowering plants in the family Araceae. It is the largest subfamily in Araceae and consists of about 72 different genera , and 2,300 species . Many Aroideae have spiny pollen grains without a sporopollenin outer exine layer and lacking an aperture .
The specific epithet spruceanum refers to botanist Richard Spruce, credited as being the first to collect specimens of the plant from the Amazon rainforest in 1851. [ 6 ] Thaumatophyllum was originally erected as a monotypic genus in 1859, containing only T. spruceanum . [ 7 ]