The gorgeous Anthurium kunayalense Croat & Vannini is a terrestrial aroid. It is still extremely rare in cultivation and rarely offered for sale. It has wonderful, pebbled, semi-velvet leaf blades emerging in dark red/ brown colour.
The species is characterized by its shortstems, short internodes, persistent cataphyll fibers on upper nodes, the 7-9-ribbedpetioles, the medium green, matte sub-rounded blade with a prominent petiolarplexus, primary lateral veins arising fromusually below the middle of the anteriorlobe and with the intervening area some-what quilted as well as by the erectinflorescence with the spathe and spadixusually both green. Anthurium kunayalense Croat & Vannini is most closely related to A. dressleri Croat and was previously confused withthat species.
The specific name refers to its association with Comarca de Kuna Yala (formerly San BIasProvince) region where it principally grows.
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The genus name Anthurium is derived form Greek ánthos "flower" + ourá "tail" + New Latin -ium -ium . A very; literal translation of this would be 'flowering tail'.
Anthurium kunayalense
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