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  1. Family: Araceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Anthurium Schott

      1. Anthurium crassifolium N.E.Br.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Colombia.

    [CATE]

    CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

    General Description
    Stem shortened; cataphylls lanceolate, almost 1 dm [10 cm] long. LEAVES: Petiole rounded abaxially, canaliculate adaxially, margins acute [or with acute margins], about 2.5 dm [25 cm] long; geniculum 1.5 cm long; blades coriaceous, deep green above, paler beneath, brown glandular-dotted, 2-2.5 dm [20 - 25 cm] long, half as wide below, 9-12 cm wide, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, obtuse at the apex, minutely apiculate, broadly cuneate at the base, midrib and latera1 veins sunken above, midrib convex above, acute below; primary lateral veins 6-7 pairs, far apart, ascending at an acute angle (about 40 degrees), joined into a robust collective vein, [the vein] coming up from the base, almost the entire length, chiefly at the bottom, far from the margin [broadly distant], another col1ective vein in the third or fourth lower part ante-marginal then marginal, all the veins decidedly prominent, below. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle almost equalling petiole, somewhat terete; spathe reflexed, elliptic-oblong, acute, about 5 cm long, 1.5-1,7 cm wide, pale green; spadix sessile, cylindrical, 4.5 cm long, 6-7 mm diam..
    Distribution
    Tropical America.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Colombia

    Anthurium crassifolium N.E.Br. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    s.coll. [s.n.] K000950214
    s.coll. [s.n.] K000950215 Unknown type material

    First published in Gard. Chron., n.s., 19: 10 (1883)

    Accepted by

    • Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

    Sources

    CATE Araceae
    Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
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    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
    'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0