Anthurium vittarifolium
A strap-leaved epiphytic Anthurium in section Leptanthurium, whose narrow, pendulous leaves can hang up to about 2.4 m in old plants. The accepted spelling is Anthurium vittariifolium Engl., and it grows wild in the lowland rainforest of the western Amazon basin in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Herbarium labels place it mostly below about 650 m, often on trees along rivers and flooded forest margins. At home it wants steady warmth, high humidity, bright shade and a mount or hanging basket that lets the leaves hang freely.
Where it grows wild
An epiphyte of lowland moist tropical forest. GBIF herbarium labels from Loreto (Peru), Acre (Brazil) and Amazonian Colombia and Ecuador describe riverine and shoreline forest, seasonally flooded margins (várzea and tahuampa), floodplains of blackwater and clearwater streams, and primary terra firme forest, including one with an open canopy. It hangs from trunks and branches above the ground, so it gets more light and air movement than forest-floor plants.
Most specimens with an elevation were collected at 90–300 m, with outliers at 650 m (Pongo de Manseriche) and 900 m (Chimborazo, Ecuador). Two records at 2,200–2,300 m, from Cusco and near Bogotá, fall far outside this pattern and are probably misidentifications or cultivated plants.
🔒 Growing it like that
The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:
Grow Anthurium vittarifolium? Add it to a free garden and its full profile opens. Pro opens all 38,374 profiles in the library, plants and fungi.
More Anthurium
Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app.