Anthurium Schott sec CATE Araceae, 2009 urn:lsid:cate-araceae.org:taxon:5c8d95c8-6bfb-1014-a918-dc439151c9e5
Schott 1829. Wiener Z. Kunst. 3: 828
Distinguishing Features
Plants usually an epiphyte or climbing hemiepiphyte, less often lithophyte or terrestrial; stem aerial, not tuberous or rhizomatous; petiole geniculate at apex; higher order leaf venation clearly reticulated, submarginal collective veins usually present, tissues without trichosclereids; flowers bisexual, with obvious perigone of four free tepals; spathe simple, spreading, reflexed or erect; spadix uniform in appearance with flowers of only one type; berries exserted when mature; seeds with copious endosperm; Neotropical range.
Distribution
Mexico to Trop. America.
