A very easy to care for, beautiful, less known velvet-leaf Anthurium villenaorum (ined.) is tentatively considered and aberrant section Cardiolonchium, Multinervium or Pachyneurium species with the involute vernation typical of the latter two sections, it can be sub velvety to velvety depending on culture with petioles sharply triangular in cross-section.
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 villenaorum
Anthurium villenaorum comes in a 10.5 cm pot and is ca. 15 cm tall
