Adelonema wallisii

Adelonema wallisii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Genus:	Adelonema
Species:	A. wallisii
Binomial name
	Adelonema wallisii; Regel
Synonyms
	Curmeria wallisii (Regel) Masl. ; Homalomena wallisii Regel ;

Adelonema wallisii (synonym Homalomena wallisii ) is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae native to Venezuela, Colombia, and Panama.^[1]^[2]^[3]

It reaches about 6" (15 cm) in height but with a much wider 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. It can be confused with the rather similar Aglaonema.^[4]

References[]

^ ^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)

External links[]

Gardentia

[WCSP_519680-1] "Adelonema wallisii", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2019-08-11

[2] 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.

[3] Correa A., M.D., C. Galdames & M. Stapf. 2004. Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares de Panamá 1–599. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá

[4] Regel, Gartenflora 26: 33 (1877)

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