Anthurium clidemioides

Paul Standley described Anthurium clidemioides in 1940, noting its unusual foliar resemblance to plants in the genus Clidemia. Native to wet lowland and premontane rainforests in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia, it grows as a climbing epiphyte. The species differs from typical rosette anthuriums by forming a wiry climbing vine with corky-tubercled stems and bullate quilted leaves. It requires a textured cedar plank or moist moss pole to climb, as trailing stems without support produce dwarfed foliage.

Native range

Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia (wet lowland and premontane rainforest)

Classification

Genus

Anthurium

Family

Araceae

Type

Wild

Growth habit

Scandent climbing vine

Morphology

Leaf shape

OvateEgg-shaped leaves, with the wider end near the base. to broadly elliptic with a rounded or subcordate base

Leaf length

10-18 cm

Leaf width

7-12 cm

Petiole colour

Olive-brown with rough corky tubercles

Venation

Campylodromous with 3-5 primary veins originating from the petiole junction

Texture

Bullate and leathery

Variegation

N/A

Growth habit

Appressed climbing vine with wiry verrucose stems rooting at nodes