Anthurium (sect. Dactylophyllium)
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Araceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Erect herbs or vines climbing by adventitious roots, terrestrial or epiphytic; stems elongate, fleshy or the plant acaulescent. Leaves alternate, simple, or palmately lobed, long-petiolate, enveloped by a cataphyll in early stages. Spathe usually herbaceous, not enclosing the spadix, reflexed, usually long-lived, green, whitish to brightly colored; spadix sessile or short-stipitate, cylindrical or conical, many-flowered, flowering from base to apex. Flowers bisexual, sessile, the perianth segments 4; stamens 4; ovary 2-locular, with 1 or 2 pendulous ovules per locule, the style short or wanting, the stigma disklike to 4-lobed. Fruit a 2-locular, fleshy, bright red, white, or lavender berry; seeds oblong.
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Distribution
A genus of about 700 species native to the neotropics.
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|