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Anthurium clavigerum

Botanic Family

Araceae

Author

Poeppig & Engler

Propagation

C.K.S.

Hardiness Zone

Min10C

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Goiás
• Manahão
• Mato Grosso
• Pará
• Rio de Janeiro
• Roraima - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Peru
• Suriname
• Mérida - Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Moist forest
• seasonally waterlogged
• disturbed forest
• floodplain forest
• forest remnant
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Aug
• Oct (Bolivia)

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Jun
• Sep
• Dec (Bolivia)

Large root-climbing hemi-epiphytic liana to 6m. Palmate leaves to 1m+ x 600mm, 5-9 pinnately parted lobed segments. Coriaceous violet-purple flower spathe 700mm x 110mm, lavender-purple spadix white to 750mm x 20mm, flowers 3mm x 3mm. Purple or red berry.

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• Exotica
• The Plant List 2
• FOPE
• Kew
• Standley
• CATE
• Academia