Philodendron roseocataphyllum Croat & M. M. Mora is a wonderful, hemiepiphytic aroid with very attractive, matte, ribbed foliage.
Petioles are terete to D shaped with obtuse or flaring margins, with anobtuse medial rib toward the apex,s ometimes becoming 3-ribbed at the apex, densely fine, pale striate. Leaf blades are subcoriaceous, ovate to broadly ovate, acuminate at apex, prominently lobed at base, darkgreen and matte-subvelvety above,moderately paler and weakly glossy to semi-glossy below. Primary lateral veins are weakly or narrowly sunken to prominently sunken above, convex to narrowly raised below; minor veins fine, more or less distinct to moderately obscure.
From the Modern Latin genus name Philodendron (Schott, 1830), from Greek philodendron, neuter of philodendros "loving trees," from philo- "loving" (see philo-) + dendron "tree" (from PIE *der-drew-, from root *deru- "to be firm, solid, steadfast," also forming words for "wood, tree"). The plant so called because it clings to trees.