<br><br>Anthurium acutifolium – a perennial herbaceous evergreen, a species of the genus Anthurium (Anthurium) of the family Aroid, or Aronic (Araceae).<br>Botanical description<br> plants, occasionally epiphytes.<br><br>The roots are numerous, thick, velvety.<br>Leaves<br>Cataphylls, preserved in the form of a net of fibers, are semi-leathery, 6-10 cm long, pointed at the apex, dark reddish-brown when dried.<br><br>Leaves from erect to spreading. Petioles (2) 6-22 cm long, 3-6 (9) mm in diameter, from smoothed to above, with three sharp ribs below. Leaf blades from obverse-lanceolate to broadly obverse-lanceolate, gradually tapering towards the apex, long-descending at the base, (11) 25-62 cm long, (3.5) 5.5-27 cm wide, widest in the middle. The central vein is convex above and below, paler than the surface of the leaf blade, sometimes yellow; primary lateral veins, 8-12 on each side, deviated from the central vein at an angle of 40 ° -45 °; a common vein will connect the third – fifth lateral veins, runs 3-5 mm from the edge.<br>Inflorescence and flowers<br>The inflorescence is upright, usually shorter than the leaves. Pedicel 24-53 cm long, much longer than petioles, 3-5 mm in diameter. Cover green, linear-lanceolate, 5-12 cm long, 0.7-1.1 cm wide.<br><br>The ear is sessile, from green to white, sometimes with a reddish-purple tint, 7-16 cm long, 6-8 mm in diameter at the base, 3-4 mm in diameter at the apex. Flower square from square to rhombic, about 2 mm in both directions, the sides are more or less straight. 5-6 flowers visible in the main spiral, 5-7 in the additional one. Lateral petals 0.5 mm wide, inner edges turned.<br>Fruit<br>Fruits are greenish-yellow, obovate berries, often not ripening at the top of the cob, from a fourth to half of it.<br>Spreading<br>Found in Central America (Costa Rica, Panama).<br><br>Grows in tropical humid and damp forests, at an of sea level to 900 m above sea level.<br>ClassificationVarieties<br>Within a species, two varieties are distinguished:<br>Anthurium acutifolium var. acutifolium – Costa Rica, PanamaAnthurium acutifolium var. herrerae Croat from Costa Rica