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Syngonium erythrophyllum; photograph (c) Daniel Mesa, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Daniel Mesa, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2024-01-09

Syngonium erythrophyllum Birdsey ex G.S.Bunting

Arrowhead vine

Araceae · Panama · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

No habitat climate
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About the genus · Syngonium

Syngonium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical rainforests in southern Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America. They are vines growing to heights of 10–20 m or more in trees. Their leaves change shape according to the plant's stage of growth; adult leaf forms are often much more lobed than the juvenile forms usually seen on small house plants. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

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

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
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.

Group. Listed under the genus Syngonium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “climber”, “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

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 20 of the 21 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativePanama · 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 marker9.1, -79.617 · in the densest population, 21 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“climber” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 21 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 7 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 20 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 21 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: (c) Daniel Mesa, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3).

Other Syngonium 10 in the reference

Syngonium angustatum Syngonium angustatum Fivefingers Photo: CC BY, 四角銅鑼Syngonium auritum Syngonium auritum Arrowhead vine Photo: CC BY, Elizabeth AxleySyngonium chiapense Syngonium chiapense Araceae Photo: CC BY, Aiva NoringsethSyngonium macrophyllum Syngonium macrophyllum Arrowhead vine Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez MarcialSyngonium neglectum Syngonium neglectum Contzontón Photo: CC BY-SA, alessandradaliaSyngonium podophyllum Syngonium podophyllum American evergreen Photo: CC0, author not stated Syngonium rayi Araceae Syngonium schottianum Syngonium schottianum Araceae Photo: CC BY, er-birds Syngonium triphyllum Araceae Syngonium wendlandii Syngonium wendlandii Silver arrowhead Photo: CC BY, Julius P

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
Birdsey ex G.S.Bunting
Native to
Panama
Wild records
21 in range · 21 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
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 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 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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