Anthurium trinidadensis

From: GeoffAroid at aol.com on 2000.07.03 at 23:12:47(4967) Hi all, Have just been given a very nice plant labelled Anthurium trinidadensis. Does anyone know anything about this species? I cant find the name listed anywhere, its not on the Anthurium species list on Aroid-L or in the books I have by Tom Croat. The parent plant was very large, about 5 feet high and is a semi-scandent, shrubby species with very oblong-lanceolate leaves, very smooth, without glands and hardly any visible veins except the central vein, rather tough also. Is this a 'good' name and is the species endemic to the West Indies or more widespread? Any info gratefully received. Will post a pic on my website in due course. Regards, Geoffrey Kibby

From: Don Burns donburns at macconnect.com> on 2000.07.03 at 23:53:10(4968) Geoff, Sounds like a nice plant. I like 'em BIG too! This plant may be Anthurium jenmanii. Synonymous with "jenmanii" is "trinitatis". You will find both of these species names referenced on the website Anthurium species list. To determine the above names and relationship I went to Tropicos3. If you have not used this resource, I suggest you become familiar with it. Used properly it can be a very powerful tool. Follow the link from . Anyway, the name "trinidadensis" shows up no where on Tropicos3. So I started to shorten the species name until I hit a similar name, "trinitatis". From that point I called up the additional Tropicos resources and found that the plant is endemic to Venezuela, the Guianas as well as Trinidad and Tobago. Sounds like we are getting close. Using jenmanii as a valid species name I searched the Aroideana Index (another really handy tool available from the IAS) to locate what has been written in Aroideana. Several references are in the index. A. jenmanii is described by Tom Croat in Vol.9 (1-4), page 39. His description resembles, in part, what you told us. Don +More >Have just been given a very nice plant labelled Anthurium trinidadensis. Does >anyone know anything about this species? I cant find the name listed >anywhere, its not on the Anthurium species list on Aroid-L or in the books I >have by Tom Croat. The parent plant was very large, about 5 feet high and is >a semi-scandent, shrubby species with very oblong-lanceolate leaves, very >smooth, without glands and hardly any visible veins except the central vein, >rather tough also. Is this a 'good' name and is the species endemic to the >West Indies or more widespread? Any info gratefully received. Will post a pic >on my website in due course. > >Regards, >Geoffrey Kibby Don Burns Fort Lauderdale FL USA Zone 10b

From: Durightmm at aol.com on 2000.07.05 at 01:39:21(4981) Don the info on TROPICOS is most useful. Thanks for the hint. Joe

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