Biology:Asplundia stenophylla
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
Asplundia stenophylla | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Pandanales |
Family: | Cyclanthaceae |
Genus: | Asplundia |
Species: | A. stenophylla
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Binomial name | |
Asplundia stenophylla Standley 1937
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Asplundia stenophylla is a species of plant belonging to the family Cyclanthaceae. It occasionally grows terrestrially but is usually a climbing epiphyte. The stem is up to 5 m long, bearing petioles up to 44 cm long which terminate in very distinctive leaves: very deeply bifid, deeply corrugated and up to 77 cm long.
This is a commonly encountered species in cloud forests from Costa Rica to Ecuador.
References
Wikidata ☰ Q4808195 entry
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplundia stenophylla.
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