Anthurium warocqueanum
A Colombian endemic that climbs mossy trunks in the permanently wet Chocó and western Andean forests, producing pendent, strap-shaped velvet leaves that can exceed a metre.
Where it grows wild
Epiphyte and hemiepiphyte on tree trunks in the undercanopy of very wet lowland and premontane rainforest and cloud forest on the Pacific slope and western Andes of Colombia. Plants root into moss and humus on trunks, with leaves hanging below the stem in shade.
Colombian flora data give 0–2250 m; wild records measured here span sea level to about 3270 m (the upper end is almost certainly a georeferencing error) with a median of 800 m. Most plants in cultivation derive from low to mid elevations, and a lowland Chocó form is notably heat tolerant.
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