Panama Aroid]

From: ExoticRainforest <Steve at ExoticRainforest.com> on 2009.11.24 at 18:26:21(20365) Dear Steve& Harry: Sorrythat Mike was not able to be more certain of what it was. I really dobelieve that it is a Pteromischum and certainly it is close to P.aurantiifoliumSchott. Tom HTML +More From: Michael Grayum Sent: Tuesday, November24, 200911:41 AM To: Tom Croat Subject: RE: [Aroid-l] PanamaAroid Dear Tom, It doesn’tlook much like P. hederaceumto me. Could be justabout anything, especially given the nebulous locality data, quiteusual withthese horticultural sorts (how could somebody not know what countrythey werein?). If it is a Pteromischum(which I can’t entirely rule out), it would likely be P. tuerckheimii, especially ifit reallyis from Panama; in Panama,I circumscribed P. tuerckheimiirather broadly to include several aberrant “races” (discussed inthe revision), some with broad leaves like those pictured. Or it couldjust as easily be a juvenile plant of a non-PteromischumPhilodendron. Or,alternatively, it could be something like a Monstera! For example, juvenile plants of M.dissecta can look a lot like the pictured samples (and mayevenflower precociously in that state). Can’t say much more.

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