Philodendron fibrosum
Philodendron fibrosum is a montane climbing philodendron from wet forest in southern Colombia and northern Ecuador. Its stems are covered with persistent fibrous cataphylls, which give the species its name, and its leaves are large and rounded. It grows mainly at 1,200–1,800 m, in cool, constantly humid cloud-forest conditions, so it wants mild days, cool nights and high humidity rather than lowland heat.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte, often climbing flat against trunks, and sometimes terrestrial, in lower montane moist and rain forest and premontane wet forest. It is moderately common throughout the La Planada Reserve in Nariño. The cataphylls persist as loose fibres at the upper nodes.
900–2,200 m, mainly 1,200–1,800 m (CATE Araceae). GBIF records with elevations run from about 825 to 2,550 m, median about 1,815 m.
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