Rhaphidophora beccarii
Beccari's Rhaphidophora
Morphology
About
Rhaphidophora beccarii, described by Engler, is a tropical climbing aroid from the humid lowland and hill forests of Peninsular Thailand to Western Malesia — ascending tree trunks by means of adventitious attachment roots in shaded to filtered light beneath the forest canopy where humidity is maintained throughout the year. It is a strongly heteroblastic species: juvenile leaves are small, coriaceous, and tightly appressed to the substrate in a characteristic shingling behaviour, while adult leaves breaking free of the shingle phase are considerably larger, thick and elliptic to ovate, with entire margins and assertive venation. The contrast between juvenile and adult growth is pronounced enough to cause regular misidentification. Beccarii occupies the accessible end of the collector Rhaphidophora spectrum — less extreme in its shingling habit than cryptantha or hayi but botanically interesting and genuinely ornamental in its adult form.
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