Anthurium pedatoradiatum

Young leaves on Anthurium pedatoradiatum start out undivided or only shallowly lobed; mature ones split into deeply and completely lobed, pedate fingers radiating from a central point, a leaf shape almost no other Anthurium develops. Native to seasonally dry tropical forest in southern Mexico, it grows as an epiphyte or compact subshrub on bark, rocky substrate or accumulated organic material, forming a short central stem with basal roots. Where most collector anthuriums are bought for cordate, velvet leaves, this species offers an architecturally different alternative — a genuinely different silhouette rather than a variation on the usual theme.

Native range

Southern Mexico (seasonally dry tropical forest)

Classification

Genus

Anthurium

Family

Araceae

Type

Wild

Growth habit

Epiphytic to subshrub, compact

Morphology

Leaf shape

Deeply pedate with numerous long, narrow radiating lobes

Leaf length

30-60 cm (including lobes)

Leaf width

40-80 cm (spread across lobes)

Petiole colour

Medium green, slender

Venation

Midrib per lobe, pinnateVeins or lobes arranged like a feather, branching out symmetrically on both sides of a single main central vein. lateral veins

Texture

Glossy, semi-coriaceous

Variegation

None

Growth habit

Short central stem with basal roots, radiating crown of lobed leaves