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Philodendron stenolobum E.G.Gonç.

Araceae · Brazil Southeast · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
15.7°C
Record low 12.9 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
29°C
Jan and Feb at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,280mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
23–41DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet summers: the rain comes April to July and September to October (October to January and March to April at the habitat), read as a summer growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Philodendron stenolobum is a species of flowering plant in the family Araceae. It is native to Espírito Santo, Brazil. A epiphytic subshrub, it is typically found in the wet tropical biome, but along with other members of its subgenus Meconostigma it is believed to have originated in the Cerrado.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Philodendron stenolobum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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 ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Philodendron", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Philodendron in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “epiphytic subshrub”, “wet tropical”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (945 mm of 1,293 mm) falls in October to January and March to April, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 24.9 °C against a yearly mean of 23.9 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to July and September to October.

Rain

1,293 mm in the median year at the habitat, 945 mm of it October to January and March to April. Wettest month November at 216 mm, driest month August at 42 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,221 mm to 1,515 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,280 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,293 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 23 to 41 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 22, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 15.7 °C, the absolute minimum 12.9 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 17.3 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 15.5 °C to 19.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.4 °C in February (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 15.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 65% 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 -270 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 “epiphytic subshrub”, “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, southern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Philodendron stenolobum through the yearWarmest months January and February, mean daily high 29 °C; coldest month July, mean nightly low 17.3 °C; 1,293 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, southern hemisphere.10°15°20°25°30°35°40°34.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER12.9° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200250mm rainDLI 23–41RH 62–65%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 14 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C29 / 28–3029 / 28–3128 / 28–3027 / 26–2926 / 25–2725 / 24–2624 / 23–2525 / 24–2626 / 24–2727 / 25–2827 / 26–2928 / 27–29
Night °C22 / 21–2422 / 21–2522 / 21–2421 / 20–2319 / 18–2218 / 16–2117 / 16–2017 / 16–2019 / 18–2120 / 19–2221 / 20–2322 / 20–24
Rain mm157 / 132–207101 / 75–123152 / 133–179106 / 83–12153 / 36–7445 / 24–5249 / 26–6242 / 28–6458 / 46–92120 / 111–142216 / 202–244194 / 181–246
DLI40 / 36–4141 / 38–4235 / 34–3630 / 28–3125 / 24–2623 / 22–2424 / 22–2527 / 26–2930 / 29–3233 / 32–3634 / 33–3637 / 34–38
RH %64 / 62–6664 / 62–6665 / 64–6765 / 63–6864 / 62–6664 / 62–6563 / 62–6562 / 61–6563 / 60–6664 / 61–6665 / 63–6765 / 63–67
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 14 grid cells holding the 25 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 2212:2785 (-20.625, -40.725). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 12.9 °C, 1st-percentile night 15.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 14 distinct grid cells holding 25 of the 25 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2212:2785 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -20.50_-40.625, lapse-corrected -270 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 143 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 9751093 (Thaumatophyllum stenolobum (E.G.Gonç.) Sakur., Calazans & Mayo, 85 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeBrazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-20.151, -40.449 · in the densest population, 63 records (91% of those in range)
Kew's description“epiphytic subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 69 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 25 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 29 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 16 km away. 2 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 44 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 9751093 (Thaumatophyllum stenolobum (E.G.Gonç.) Sakur., Calazans & Mayo): Kew's file holds it as Thaumatophyllum stenolobum (E.G.Gonç.) Sakur., Calazans & Mayo (synonym under Philodendron stenolobum E.G.Gonç.); 85 records, from GBIF's download.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 69 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: David J. Stang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Carpotroche brasiliensis Carpotroche brasiliensis Achariaceae Photo: CC BY, Gabriel Jovêncio RibeiroDorstenia elata Dorstenia elata Moraceae Photo: CC0, rebecca bachmanCordia taguahyensis Cordia taguahyensis Boraginaceae Photo: CC BY, Alex Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil from BrazilFicus clusiifolia Ficus clusiifolia Moraceae Photo: CC BY, Diogo LuizGoeppertia insignis Goeppertia insignis Rattlesnake-plant Photo: CC BY, Marcio Santos FerreiraJoannesia princeps Joannesia princeps Arara nut-tree Photo: CC BY-SA, Fernanda Tupini

Other Philodendron 93 in the reference

Philodendron angustisectum Philodendron angustisectum Araceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel MesaPhilodendron anisotomum Philodendron anisotomum Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, YuPhilodendron appendiculatum Philodendron appendiculatum Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, UNA EcoturismoPhilodendron atabapoense Philodendron atabapoense Araceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPhilodendron auriculatum Philodendron auriculatum Araceae Photo: CC BY, Fabrício Mil Homens RiellaPhilodendron barrosoanum Philodendron barrosoanum Araceae Photo: CC0, author not statedPhilodendron billietiae Philodendron billietiae Araceae Photo: CC BY, fmunozPhilodendron bipennifolium Philodendron bipennifolium Fiddle-leaf philodendron Photo: CC0, author not statedPhilodendron bipinnatifidum Philodendron bipinnatifidum Araceae Photo: CC BY, Paulo C. O. CunhaPhilodendron brandtianum Philodendron brandtianum Silver Leaf Philodendron Photo: CC BY, Yuri Sofronov Philodendron brasiliense Araceae Philodendron burle-marxii Philodendron burle-marxii Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. Stang all 94 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Thaumatophyllum stenolobum. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

IPNIPOWOWikidataWFOWikipedia

The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
E.G.Gonç.
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
69 in range · 29 open

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
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Philodendron stenolobum E.G.Gonç. (plant_name_id 257758), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 85 records of GBIF's key 9751093, Thaumatophyllum stenolobum (E.G.Gonç.) Sakur., Calazans & Mayo (Kew's file holds it as Thaumatophyllum stenolobum (E.G.Gonç.) Sakur., Calazans & Mayo (synonym under Philodendron stenolobum E.G.Gonç.)): the GBIF download; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -20.50_-40.625, lapse-corrected -270 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 326130-2, POWO 326130-2
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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