*Syngonium podophyllum Schott var. podophyllum . Common name: American-evergreen. Habitat: Disturbed hammocks, suburban woodlands, from horticultural use. Distribution: Native of Central America.
Origin/Endemic status: Neotropics
Other Comments: Often grown as a houseplant, and then usually staying in its juvenile leaf form (trifoliolate), but developing into a climbing liana. Var. peliocladum is known from Costa Rica and Panama (Croat 1981).
Synonymy ⓘ: = Croat (1981); < Syngonium podophyllum Schott — Bah, FNA22, K4, WH3. Basionym: Syngonium podophyllum Schott 1851
Links to other floras: < Syngonium podophyllum - FNA22
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