It is a plant in the genus Philodendron native to the Chocó region of Colombia. It is one of the most stunning and magnificent species in the genus. It is an appressed-climbing epiphyte. Leaves are pendent on adult plants. Petiole is firm, terete, sulcate at base. Leaf blades are ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, subcordate or rounded at base, cuspidate at apex, subcordate at base, thinly coriaceous, dark green and concolorous, matte above, glossy below, somewhat quilted in age