Climbing Anturium ( lat.Anthúrium scandens ) - a perennial herbaceous evergreen, a species of the genus Anthurium ( Anthurium ) family Aroid, or Aronnikovye ( Araceae ).
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Climbing anthurium is characterized by a more or less climbing life form, elongated internodes with usually not falling cataphillas, usually oblong-oval glandular-pubescent leaves, double-bent green oval bedspreads, cylindrical usually pale green ears and from pale lavender to almost white berries.
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Botanical Description
Epiphytes .
The stalk is long, about 1 m long. The roots are numerous, along the entire stem, about 3 mm in diameter, gray-green.
Cataphillas 3-6 cm long, brown in dried form, stored as a network of fibers.
Leaves
Leaves are spread out. Petioles are sharp-grooved, rounded at the apex, 2-8.5 cm long, 2-3 mm in diameter. Vessels 2-3 mm long, almost imperceptible. Leaf blades are oval or lanceolate-elliptic, moderately thick, (3.5) 6-13 cm long, (1.5) 2-5 cm wide, short-pointed at apex, from sharp to rounded at the base; semi-glossy top, with noticeable brown glands below. The central vein is sharply convex, reduced and recessed from below in the apical half of the plate, in the lower one - convex. Secondary veins 3–10 on each side (sometimes more), deviated at an angle of 35–40 ° from the central vein, slightly recessed from above, almost imperceptible from below. The common vein, which is the result of the connection of the secondary, stretches directly to the apex 3-5 mm from the edge.
Inflorescence and flowers
Inflorescence from vertical to dangling, shorter than leaves. Pedicel 1.5-6.5 cm long, 1-1.3 mm in diameter, equal to or more petioles. The cover is pale green, from oval to narrowly oval, 8-16 mm long, 4 mm wide, bent twice during flowering , quickly pointed to the apex. The ear is yellow-green, sometimes becoming lavender, 1.3–2 cm long, 2-3 mm in diameter in the middle part. The flowers are rhombic, 2-4 mm in length and width, sides from straight to sigmoid; 2-3 flowers are visible in both spirals. The sepals are semi-glossy, lateral about 1.2 mm wide, the inner edges slightly concave. The pistil is greenish-white, barely visible, the stigma is brush-like, about 0.2 mm long. Stamens appear quickly and in full from the base on the edge of the sepals, at an angle to the pestle; anthers are white, oval, somewhat branched; white pollen .
Fruits
Collapse flattened, the coverlet is preserved with collapse; ear 2.5-3.5 cm long, up to 7 mm in diameter. The berries are usually from pale purple to almost white, sometimes purple, ovoid, rounded on top, 5-8 mm wide. Seeds , including 1-2 in each nest, are light yellow, ovoid, about 2 mm long, 1 mm wide.
Similar Views
Climbing Anthurium is closely related to Anthurium trinerve , with which it was confused for a long time. The most easy to distinguish them by the coverlet. In the climbing anthurium, the coverlet is twice bent during the flowering period, while in Anthurium trinerve it is constantly upright, even after flowering.
Distribution
It is found in Mexico , Belize , El Salvador , Costa Rica , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Panama , the Greater Antilles ( Cuba , Haiti , Jamaica , Puerto Rico ), the Lesser Antilles ( Trinidad and Tobago , Antigua and Barbuda , Guadeloupe ) , in Venezuela , French Guiana , Guiana , Suriname , Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , Peru , Southern Brazil [2] .
It grows in moist tropical mountain and foothill forests, up to 2700 m above sea level. This is the most common species of the aroid family in the New World and the most environmentally diverse.
Classification
Anthurium climbing is included in the Tetraspermium section.
Subspecies
Within the species, two subspecies are distinguished [2] :
- Anthurium scandens subsp. pusillum Sheffer - Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia
- Anthurium scandens subsp. scandens - Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Brazil
Practical use
A fairly common indoor plant is also grown in greenhouses. Indoors is used for vertical gardening.
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of monocotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Monocotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 According to Royal Kew Botanical Gardens , UK. See the links section.
Literature
- Saakov S.G. Greenhouse and indoor plants and their care / Under. ed. Kamelina R.V. - L .: Nauka, 1983 .-- pp. 143-144. - 621 p.
- Chub V.V., Lezina K.D. Complete encyclopedia of indoor plants. - M .: EKSMO-Press, 2001 .-- S. 119. - 416 p. - ISBN 5-04-006077-7 .
Links
- Anthurium scandens in the Royal Botanic Gardens database at Kew (Retrieved September 24, 2010)