Rhaphidophora

Rhaphidophora is a genus of 188 species of flowering plants belonging to the Araceae family. Native to tropical Africa to the western Pacific.

Description

This is a genus of evergreen, robust, climbing plants. The flowers are bisexual, which lack perigone. The spathe is removed after flowering.

The number of eggs, eight or more overlapping in two (rarely 3) parietal placentas in the ovary. The flowers produce many seeds directly, are ellipsoidal with a fragile and soft outer layer (testa).

These are epiphytes, plants able to start life as a seed by sending roots to the land, or begin as a terrestrial plant that climbs a tree and then sends back the roots of the soil. Rarely is a terrestrial plant rheofitica (resistant to flooding).

The leaves are pinnate to pinnatisect (cut with the opposite lobe depth). The midrib of the blade is parallel (with veins running parallel to the length of the blade), pinnate.



Source: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaphidophora

See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist