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

      1. Anthurium illepidum Schott

        This species is accepted, and its native range is SE. Brazil.

    [CATE]

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

    General Description
    Epiphytic or rupicolous herb with short stem to 7cm long, 2cm thick, old cataphylls to 5cm long, persistent, brown, net-fibrous. LEAVES ± rosulate; petiole to 6.5cm long, 0.4cm thick, much shorter than blade; leaf blade linear to narrowly oblanceolate, to 50cm long, 5cm broad, apex acute, base acute to subacute, paler on lower surface; main side veins forming conspicuous inframarginal veins. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle to 45cm long, 0.3cm thick, erect; spathe oblong-lanceolate, to 5.5cm long, 1.5cmbroad, subequal to spadix, green, erect to suberect; spadix cylindric to slightly conic, to 6cm long, 0.6cm thick; tepals yellow to cream. Exserted anthers held vertically and distinctly beyond tepals (not lying flat on gynoecium as in many other species).

    Distribution

    Native to:

    Brazil Southeast

    Other Data

    Anthurium illepidum Schott appears in other Kew resources:

    Bibliography

    First published in Oesterr. Bot. Z. 9: 100 (1859)

    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.
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. 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 2020. 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