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(Last Modified On 10/25/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/25/2012)
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Species
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ANTHURIUM AEMULUM Schott
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PlaceOfPublication
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Bonplandia 7:165. 1859.
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Description
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A large, epiphytic vine, the caudex slender, with elongate nodes; cataphylls caducous; petioles slender, equaling or longer than the blades, geniculate near the apex; blades 7- to 11-parted, the segments sessile or petiolulate, 15-30 cm. long, mostly 5-7 cm. wide, oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate-oblong, thin when dried, cuspidate-acuminate, cuneately narrowed to the base, the lateral nerves united to form 2 collective nerves, one close to the margin, the other remote from it, all the nerves very slender; peduncles 5-15 cm. long, slender or stout; spathe 7-10 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide at the base, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, pale green; spadix short-stipitate or sessile, conoid or at first caudiform, somewhat attenuate upward, 3-10 cm. long, as much as 13 mm. thick.
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Habit
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vine
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Distribution
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Scandent on trees in wet forest, mostly at 250 meters or less, south- ern Mexico to Panama.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Barro Colorado Is- land, Shattuck I25. COLON: Fato, Pittier 3864. PANAMA: Rio Tapia, Standley 28258.
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Note
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The plant is a rather handsome and decorative one, easily recog- nized by its leaf form. In two of the specimens cited the leaf seg- ments are conspicuously stipitate, which would exclude them, accord- ing to Engler's key to species, from A. aemulum, but it appears questionable whether the attachment of the leaf seg- ments, i. e., whether they are sessile or stipitate, is an important taxonomic character.
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