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Summary
Philodendron linnaei is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is native to wet tropical areas of South America. A hemi-epiphyte and climber with obovate leaves, it has found some use as a slow-growing houseplant. Its growth alternates between long, thin, leafless zones between much shorter and thicker zones with globular clusters of leaves.
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About the genus · Philodendron
Philodendron is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae. As of September 2025, the Plants of the World Online accepted 625 species; other sources accept different numbers. Regardless of number of species, the genus is the second-largest member of the family Araceae, after genus Anthurium. More on Wikipedia ›
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Cultivation
Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Philodendron in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”, “wet tropical”.
Seasons
The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (2,141 mm of 2,765 mm) falls in December to June. The temperature curve is flat, 1.6 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The habitat lies within 10° of the equator, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.
Rain
2,765 mm in the median year at the habitat, 2,141 mm of it December to June. Wettest month May at 382 mm, driest month September at 72 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 2,049 mm to 3,557 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 2,786 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 2,765 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 26 to 38 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 23, the highest 90th-percentile month 40).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 20.8 °C, the absolute minimum 18.4 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 21.9 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 20.7 °C to 23.0 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 31.4 °C in October (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 20.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 64 to 71% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected -19 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Group. Listed under the genus Philodendron in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphyte”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 28 °C in Jan, Feb and Jun to 31 °C in Sep and Oct; mean nightly low from 22 °C in Jan, Feb, Jun, Jul, Aug and Sep to 23 °C in Mar, Apr, May, Oct, Nov and Dec. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low, around the first of the 6 months that tie for it. 2,765 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month May. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 128 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was 18.4 °C and the 99th-percentile day 34.2 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 28 / 27–30 | 28 / 28–30 | 29 / 28–30 | 29 / 28–30 | 29 / 28–29 | 28 / 28–29 | 29 / 28–30 | 30 / 29–31 | 31 / 29–33 | 31 / 30–33 | 30 / 29–32 | 29 / 28–30 |
| Night °C | 22 / 21–23 | 22 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 22 / 21–23 | 22 / 21–23 | 22 / 21–23 | 22 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 | 23 / 22–24 |
| Rain mm | 284 / 169–418 | 272 / 146–347 | 304 / 160–344 | 344 / 204–444 | 382 / 265–551 | 320 / 142–414 | 213 / 93–305 | 137 / 88–229 | 72 / 43–243 | 74 / 56–239 | 128 / 67–238 | 235 / 133–361 |
| DLI | 27 / 25–31 | 28 / 26–31 | 30 / 27–33 | 28 / 26–31 | 26 / 24–28 | 27 / 23–29 | 31 / 25–33 | 35 / 29–37 | 38 / 32–40 | 38 / 32–40 | 33 / 31–36 | 29 / 27–31 |
| RH % | 69 / 66–72 | 68 / 64–71 | 68 / 63–71 | 69 / 66–72 | 71 / 68–73 | 70 / 68–73 | 69 / 65–73 | 66 / 62–72 | 64 / 58–71 | 64 / 58–71 | 66 / 60–71 | 69 / 64–71 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) Guillaume Delaitre, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) fmunoz, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) Luan Mazzeo, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) avocat, some rights reserved (CC BY).
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The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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