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Accession Data

Anthurium andraeanum

Common Name: Cresta de gallo, Cockscomb

Family: Araceae

Country of Origin: Northwestern Ecuador and southwestern Colombia

Description: Epiphyte, the stem green, subterete, scandent, with internodes to 16 cm long and 1.5 cm thick in darkest localities, shorter in high light. Cataphylls 6-11 cm long, marcescent. Petiole terete, 25-45 cm long, green to pink. Lamina cordate-ovate, 10-14 cm broad, 22-35 cm long, coriaceous, dull medium green above, shiny pale green below, the primary lateral veins prominent both sides, pale yellowgreen. Inflorescence erect, the peduncle terete, reddish, shorter than or exceeding the petiole; spathe cordate, shiny red-orange, 3-9 cm broad, 5-12 cm long; the spadix tapered, transversely banded yellow-white-yellow in about equal lengths. Berries subglobose, translucent dirty yellow, 2-seeded. Chromosome number 2n = 30.

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 10b-11

Accession #: 198500021

Accession Date: 1985-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 4112

Quantity: 1

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: monocots

Order: Alismatales

Family: Araceae

SubFamily: Pothoideae

Tribe: Anthurieae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 8 June 2015.
  2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 8 June 2015.
  3. Aroideana, Vol.3, No.2 by MICHAEL MADISON
  4. Anthurium andraeanum at International Aroid Society. Accessed 8 June 2015.

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