Anthurium martianum
A large-leaved Anthurium described in the nineteenth century from plants grown in German botanic gardens, said to have come from Suriname. It has oblong leaf blades up to about a metre long on stout petioles, a green reflexed spathe and a maroon spadix. Its wild habitat has never been documented, so any care advice is inferred from the lowland Guianas it is attributed to.
Where it grows wild
The CATE Araceae account records the habitat as unknown and the habit as unknown. Every herbarium record we could find is cultivated material or a type photograph, much of it from Munich and Kiel botanic gardens in the 1880s. The short stem, coriaceous persistent cataphylls and big erect-spreading leaves suggest a robust terrestrial or low-epiphytic plant of lowland rainforest, but this is inference.
No elevation data exists. If it is truly from Suriname or Guyana, lowland forest below about 500 m is most likely.
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