''Anthurium jenmanii'' is a species of plant in the genus ''
Anthurium''. Growing as an
epiphyte
An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water (in marine environments) or from debris accumulating around it. The plants on which epiphytes grow are called phoroph ...
subshrub, it is native to South America from
Trinidad and Tobago to
Brazil.
A member of the section ''
Pachyneurium'', and like related species it has a "birds nest" growth habit.
It has a dark purple-black
spadix and
spathe
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,
and produces red berries.
In cultivation, it is commonly mistaken for ''
Anthurium bonplandii subsp. guayanum'', a related species.
References
jenmanii
Plants described in 1905
Taxa named by Adolf Engler
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