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Sphaeradenia chiriquensis
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Sphaeradenia chiriquensis is a species of plant in the family Cyclanthaceae that is native to Panama and Costa Rica. This palm-like plant is remarkable for its inflorescence, a spadix, in which the male and female flowers alternate in a precise checkerboard pattern. It is a semiepiphytic herbaceous plant of the montane rainforests. It was described by Harling in 1958.
- Family
- Cyclanthaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Sphaeradenia chiriquensis
- Slug
- sphaeradenia-chiriquensis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cyclanthaceae
- Genus
- Sphaeradenia
- Species
- chiriquensis
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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