Anthurium pentaphyllum
A widespread Neotropical Anthurium with palmately compound leaves, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia and southeastern Brazil. It is most often collected in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. Herbarium labels describe a shade-loving epiphyte or hemiepiphyte on trunks and buttress roots in wet lowland forest. It wants warm, humid, shaded conditions and something to climb.
Where it grows wild
Specimen labels most often record it as an epiphyte or hemiepiphyte ("erva hemiepÃfita") on trunks, often about 2 m up or on the buttress roots of large trees. It is sometimes recorded as terrestrial in the forest interior. It is noted as shade-loving ("ciófila") in dense, well-conserved rain forest (Floresta Ombrófila Densa), preserved secondary forest and restinga forest.
GBIF records span sea level to 1,800 m, with a median of 181 m, so it is overwhelmingly a lowland plant. Brazilian specimens run from about 60 m to 885 m.
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