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    Anthurium warocqueanum is a large, erect evergreen herb native to northwestern Colombia. It was first described in 1878 based on a specimen cultivated in England that had been collected in Colombia. A. warocqueanum has large, velvety leaves and belongs to the Cardiolonchium section of Anthurium. It is cultivated for its attractive foliage and grows well in warm, humid conditions similar to those found in its native lowland rainforest habitat.

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    Anthurium warocqueanum is a large, erect evergreen herb native to northwestern Colombia. It was first described in 1878 based on a specimen cultivated in England that had been collected in Colombia. A. warocqueanum has large, velvety leaves and belongs to the Cardiolonchium section of Anthurium. It is cultivated for its attractive foliage and grows well in warm, humid conditions similar to those found in its native lowland rainforest habitat.

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    Anthurium warocqueanum is a large, erect evergreen herb native to northwestern Colombia. It was first described in 1878 based on a specimen cultivated in England that had been collected in Colombia. A. warocqueanum has large, velvety leaves and belongs to the Cardiolonchium section of Anthurium. It is cultivated for its attractive foliage and grows well in warm, humid conditions similar to those found in its native lowland rainforest habitat.

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    A N T H U R I U M WAROCQUEANUM
    Peter Boyce
    Anthurium Schott is the largest genus in the Araceae, with possibly
    1000 species (Croat, pers. comm.). It is confined to the New World,
    with the greatest diversity of species occurring in north-western
    South America. The plant figured here, Anthurium warocqueanum
    T . Moore (1878), was described in honour of the Belgian amateur
    plantsman M. Warocqui from a specimen cultivated at the nursery
    of Messrs Veitch. The Veitch nursery received their plant from
    G. Wallis, a plant collector in their employ who had collected it in
    Colombia. At almost the same time the English amateur plantsman
    W. Bull received a specimen of the same species, also from
    Colombia, gathered by his collector Carder.
    Anthurium warocqueanum belongs to section Cardiolonchium (Croat &
    Sheffer, 1983: 105) and is allied to several commercially available
    species, for example Anthurium crystallinum Linden & Andri,
    A. Leuconeurum Lem. and A. magnijicum Linden. In the wild, section
    Cardiolonchium is confined to north-western South America, usually
    in pluvial rainforest at low to moderate altitudes. T h e section is
    defined by the combination of relatively short, stout stems, striate or
    ribbed petioles and the peduncles and leaves having a con-
    spicuously velvety upper surface with silvery grey primary and
    secondary venation. The magnificent foliage is the main reason why
    A. warocqueanum is so sought after by horticulturists since the
    inflorescences, although large, are not conspicuously coloured as in
    some of the better-known Anthurium species, such as A. andreanum
    Linden and A. scherzerianum Schott.
    CULTIVATION. The plants of Anthurium warocqueanum at Kew were
    donated by Missouri Botanical Garden and originated from Col-
    ombia. They are grown in a warm, moist atmosphere in a well lit but
    not sunny position in the same glasshouse as the Begonia and lowland
    Nepenthes species. The house is maintained at a minimum temper-
    ature of 20°C with atmospheric humidity at approximately 70 per
    cent. In hot weather temperatures are allowed to rise to 30°C with a
    correspondingly higher atmospheric humidity. Anthurium waroc-
    queanum is erect to somewhat arborescent in habit but with its large
    pendent leaves is prone to toppling over, thus adequate support is
    very important. At Kew a stout stake covered with living sphagnum
    moss is used. This provides support and the moss encourages the

    0Brntham-Moxon'l'rust 1995. Publishrd hy Blackwell Publishers. 108 Cowley Road,


    Oxlard OX4 I,JF', U K and 238 Main Street, Camhridge. MA 02142. USA. 127
    Anthurium warocqueanum. Habit. Drawn by Mark Fothergill

    production of roots along the entire length of the stem. An open soil
    with a large proportion of coarse bark chips and sphagnum moss has
    proved the most successful. T h e large leaves are brittle and the
    velvety upper surface is prone to damage, either through rough
    handling or from water remaining on the surface. This damage does
    Plate 27 1

    Anthurium warocqueanum A N N FARRER


    not appear to be detrimental to the plant and undoubtedly occurs in
    the wild, but it is unsightly and spoils the plant’s appearance.
    Propagation is possible from seed but, to date, fertile fruits have not
    been produced a t Kew. The plant occasionally produces offsets and
    the removal of these small side shoots provides a convenient means
    of increase.

    Anthurium warocqueanum T. Moore in Florist and Pomologist: 101


    (1878); Engl. in A. & C . DC., Monog. Phanerog. 2: 638 (1879); Engl., Das
    Pflanzenr. 21(IV.23B): 196 (1905). Type: Colombia, without exact
    locality, Wallis s.n.; described from a living plant cultivated by Veitch
    and Son, the type specimen prepared by N. E. Brown, 25 January 1879
    (holotype K!).

    Anthurium warocqueanum. A, stamen, front view, X 20; B, stamen, sidr view, X 20;
    C, whole flower, X 20; D, ovary, X 20; E, ovary, longitudinal section, X 20. Drawn by Mark
    Fothergill.

    DESCRIPTION. Large, erecl evergreen herb to 3 metres. Stem erect, 2-5 cm


    diam., apex with large triangular, sub-fleshy prophylls and cataphylls,
    lower part naked, rooting prolifically from the nodes. Roots 3-9 mm diam.;
    epidermis spongy, greyish white when dry, mid-green when wet, tips bright
    green, sticky. Leaves few to several, 160-250 cm long, 8-23 cm wide,
    elongate cordate-lanceolate, apex acute, base cordate, sinus deep, rounded,
    posterior lobes 6 8 cm long, sub-oblong, rounded, parallel; lamina leath-
    ery, deep velvety green with somewhat strongly impressed silvery-grry
    primary, secondary and tertiary venation adaxially, pale green abaxially .
    Petioles to 60 cm long, terete, somewhat angled, geniculate apically,
    geniculum 2.5-4 cm long, 7-8 mm diam., mid-green. Znforescence solitary;
    peduncle u p to 30 cm long, 1-1.5 cm diam., mid-green. Spathe 8-20 cm
    long, 1.5-3 cm wide, linear-lanceolate, green, reflexed at first, later
    twisting, greenish white with paler and darker longitudinal bands. Spadix to
    30 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, stipitate; stipe stout, 1-1.5 cm long, 8-12 mm

    0Beotham-Moxon T r u s t 1995. 129


    wide, deep green. Spadix cylindrical, tapering towards the apex, straight to
    slightly flexuous, light brownish green, later becoming slightly darker.
    Flowers bisexual, subtended by a whorl of four tepals; tepals scoop-shaped,
    1.5-2 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide, upper part expanded and short-beaked.
    Stamens 1-3.5 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, elongate-subtriangular, pale
    green, thecae c. 1.2 mm long, narrowly oblong, cream. Gynoecium
    2.5-3.5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm diam., skittle-shaped; ovary 2-loculate, ovules
    few, on axile placentas, stylar region rounded; stigma transverse, impres-
    sed. Infructescence formed by almost the entire spadix, often consisting of
    several hundred berries. Berries 8-10 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, pale
    brownish, ovoid-conic, extruded from the spadix at maturity; seed not seen.
    DISTRIBUTION. North-western Colombia, in the Depts. of Antioquia,
    Choco and Valle.
    HABITAT. Lithophytic, epiphytic or terrestrial herb in lower montane to
    montane primary or disturbed pluvial rainforest; 200-1420 m.

    REFERENCES

    Croat, T.B. & Sheffer, R.D. (1983). The Sectional Groupings of Anthur-
    ium (Araceae).Aroideana 6 : 85-123.
    Moore, T. (1878). New Anthuriums. The Florist and Pomologist: 100-101.

    130 0Bentham-Moxon Trust 1995.

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