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Fivefingers (Syngonium angustatum)

Dlium Fivefingers (Syngonium angustatum)

Donglimo or fivefingers (Syngonium angustatum) is species in Araceae, epiphytes, grow to climb large trees up to 20 meters high, produce milky sap, dark green, internodes up to 50 cm long, petioles up to 35 cm long, green and live in areas tropical.

S. angustatum has roots in the soil to absorb nutrients and air roots that grow in each segment to attach themselves to a support. Wild plants that live in forests often cause trees to be uprooted by heavy loads.



The main stem produces a row of stems, up to 60 cm with the ends of a group of leaves with 3-7 separate leaflets, but connected by horizontal stems. The middle leaf has a length of up to 25 cm and a width of up to 12 cm.

The flower has a veil, round in shape and a pointed tip, green and facing up with a stalk up to 15 cm long. The head of the pistil is tubular, stands 3-5 cm long and is white.

The fruit is in a veil, rounded with a pointed tip and green when young to turn bright red when ripe and grow on the tip of the stem with a length of up to 10 cm and stiff.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Subfamily: Aroideae
Tribe: Caladieae
Genus: Syngonium Schott in Wiener Z. Kunst 3: 780 (1829)
Species: Syngonium angustatum Schott in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 8: 178 (1858)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Nephthytis triphylla Nash in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 4: 2136 (1916)
Syngonium albolineatum W.Bull in Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 60: 6 (1871)
Syngonium gracile Matuda in Anales Inst. Biol. Univ. Nac. Autón. México, Bot. 43: 56 (1972)
Syngonium oerstedianum Schott in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 8: 178 (1858)
Syngonium podophyllum var. albolineatum (W.Bull) Engl. in Pflanzenr., IV, 23E: 129 (1920)
Syngonium podophyllum var. oerstedianum (Schott) Engl. in Pflanzenr., IV, 23E: 129 (1920)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Croat, T.B. (2023). A revision of Syngonium Schott (Araceae - Caladieae) for Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. Aroideana 46(2): 14-397.

Funez, L.A. & al. (2017). Fifty-five new records of vascular plants, and other discoveries for the flora of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. Webbia; Raccolta de Scritti Botanici 72: 221-275.

Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 1-694. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Sykes, W.R. (2016). Flora of the Cook Islands: 1-973. National Tropical Botanical Garden, Hawaii.

Takeuchi, W. (2005). Floristic notes from a holocene successional environment in Papuasia. Harvard Papers in Botany 10: 95-116.

VERNACULAR NAME

Arabic: الأصابع الخمسة
Bali: Limang don
Bengali: পাঁচটি পাতা Pachti pata
Burmese: အရွက်ငါးရွက်
Chinese (Simplified): 白纹合果芋
Chinese (Traditional): 狹葉合果芋 - 白紋合果芋
English: Fivefingers
Hebrew: חמש אצבעות
Hindi: पाँच पत्तियाँ Paanch pattiyan
Indonesian: Uruwakung, Donglimo, Singonium
Japanese: ファイブフィンガーズ
Java: Uruwakung, Donglimo
Khmer: ស្លឹកប្រាំ
Korean: 파이브핑거스
Lao: ຫ້າໃບ
Nepali: पाँच पातहरू Pām̐ca pātaharū
Portuguese: Singônio
Sinhala: කොළ පහක් Koḷa pahak
Spanish: Lengua de vaca
Tamil: ஐந்து இலைகள் Ainthu ilaigal
Thai: ห้านิ้ว
Vietnam: Năm chiếc lá

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