Anthurium ovatifolium
An Andean Anthurium of very wet premontane and lower montane forest, recorded mainly on the western slopes of northern Ecuador around Mindo, Nanegalito and Mashpi, and in Colombia. Herbarium labels describe cloud forest and very humid subandean forest at about 950–2,250 m, and one calls it a secondary hemiepiphyte. Little horticultural information exists, so grow it as an intermediate-to-cool, shade-loving cloud-forest aroid.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels describe low, very dense forest, cloud forest, lower montane wet forest and very humid subandean forest. One collector recorded it as a secondary hemiepiphyte, a plant that starts on the ground and climbs trunks, later losing its connection to the soil.
Herbarium specimens range from about 950 m (Mashpi) to 2,250 m (above Mindo), with a median near 1,700 m. A few photo observations at around 400 m near Nanegalito extend it lower.
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