Asplundia stenophylla

Taxobox
name = "Asplundia stenophylla"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Lilliopsida
ordo = Pandanales
familia = Cyclanthaceae
genus = "Asplundia"
species = "A. stenophylla"
binomial = "Asplundia stenophylla"
binomial_authority = Standley 1937

"Asplundia stenophylla" is a species of plant belonging to the family Cyclanthaceae. It occasionally grows terrestrially but is usually a climbing epiphyte. The stem is up to 5 m long, bearing petioles up to 44 cm long which terminate in very distinctive leaves: very deeply bifid, deeply corrugated and up to 77 cm long.

This is a commonly encountered species in cloud forests from Costa Rica to Ecuador.

References

* [http://www.inbio.ac.cr/pdf/CyclanthNovon03.pdf New Species of Cyclanthaceae from southern Central America and northern South America]