Philodendron duckei
A small creeping Philodendron from the lowland Amazon and Guianas: French Guiana, Suriname, and Amapá and Pará in Brazil. It has asymmetric oblong leaves up to about 21 cm that are dark green above and velvety below, on ribbed purplish-brown stems. It grows on the ground or low on trunks in shaded rainforest, so it wants warmth, high humidity and low to moderate light.
Where it grows wild
Terrestrial, or hemiepiphytic low on trunks near the ground, in lowland Amazonian rainforest. Its internodes are purplish to brownish, its petioles winged and up to 7 cm long, and its leaves oblong-elliptic, 6.5–21 cm long, with sunken main veins.
Elevation was not recorded, but the range lies entirely in the Amazonian and Guianan lowlands, mostly below about 500 m. No wild records were usable for measuring.
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