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Eight plants, including two orchids, a gardenia and a clematis: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

A tropical aroid (Philodendron simsii): spadix, spathe and leaf bases. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.

Plantae colombianae, XVII : philodendra ex regione amazoniae nova / by Richard Evans Schultes.

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Philodendron

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Plantae colombianae, XVII : philodendra ex regione amazoniae nova / by Richard Evans Schultes.

A tropical aroid (Philodendron simsii): spadix, spathe and leaf bases. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.

Eight plants, including two orchids, a gardenia and a clematis: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.