Philodendron brevispathum
A widespread but locally rare lowland philodendron found from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Amazonian Brazil. It is a scandent climber with a scaly, flaking reddish stem, found in riparian and other wet lowland forest, mostly below 300 m. Care is simple warm, humid rainforest care with bright shade.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial or hemiepiphytic, with a scrambling stem covered in branched, trichome-like scales. Colombian data record it in riparian vegetation in wet or transitional zones, and the treatment notes it has special ecological requirements.
Literature gives 0–280 m in Central America and 60–230 m in South America (10–530 m in Colombia). The GBIF median is 150 m. The 2772 m maximum is almost certainly a georeferencing error.
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