Anthurium salvinii

Anthurium salvinii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Alismatales
Family:	Araceae
Genus:	Anthurium
Species:	A. salvinii
Binomial name
Anthurium salvinii Hemsl. (1879)
Synonyms
Anthurium enormispadix Anthurium giganteum

Anthurium salvinii, commonly known as bird's nest anthurium or tabacon, is a species of herbaceous epiphyte (sometimes lithophyte),^{[ citation needed ]} in the genus Anthurium . ^[1] Native from southern Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama through to Colombia. ^[2]

It consists of a rosette of leaves, each up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) long and about one-third as wide. The rosette acts as a catch basin for falling leaves and other detritus which provides nutrients for the plant. The spathe is up to 45 cm (18 in) in height while the spadix becomes as much as 60 cm (24 in) when in fruit. The fruit is a 0.64 cm (0.25 in) red berry. ^[3] This plant is unusual for a flowering plant in having circinate vernation (leaves unfolding in the manner of a fern). ^[4]

References

1. Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666. Missouri Botanical Garden.
2. Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. Zuchowski, Willow (2007). Tropical Plants of Costa Rica. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Univ. Press. pp. 357–358. ISBN   978-0801473746.
4. Bown, Deni (2000). Aroids - Plants of the Arum Family. Portland: Timber Press. p. 210. ISBN   978-1-60469-201-3.