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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
The specimens named "Anthurium hookeri" sold all over the world are almost always hybrids and not the species. ''Anthurium hookeri'' possesses some very unique features.
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|name = Bird's nest anthurium
|image = Anthurium hookeri.JPG
|genus = Anthurium
|species = hookeri
|authority = [[Kunth]]
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'''''Anthurium hookeri''''', commonly called a '''bird's nest anthurium''', is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''[[Anthurium]]''.<ref>{{cite POWO |id=84893-1 |title=
This is the scientific description of Anthurium hookeri published in 1841:
Anthurium hookeri }}</ref> ''Anthurium hookeri'' possesses some unique features which include, short internodes, dense roots, and lanceolate cataphylls. The leaves have triangular to D-shaped petioles 2–9&nbsp;cm long, are rosulate, 10–26&nbsp;cm wide, 35–89&nbsp;cm long. The leaves exhibit a scalariforme venation and supervolute vernation. Covering the leaves are tiny black glandular punctuates. The berries produced by the plant are white.


Previously categorized in [[Anthurium sect. Pachyneurium]] which has superficially similar species, its colloquial name refers to the upright, nest-like appearance of its foliage. Specimens sold in the [[houseplant]] trade are almost always hybrids and not the species.
A. hookeri Kunth, Enum. pl. 3:74. 1841. Type: Schott Drawing 517 serves as the lectotype (designated by Mayo, 1982)


== References ==
Epiphyte. Internodes short, densely rooted; cataphylls lanceolate, 20-26 cm long, dilacerating from base. VERNATION- supervolute; Leaves rosulate; petioles triangular to D-shaped, 2-9 cm long, 1.5-1.7 cm wide; blades oblanceolate, broadest above middle, margins smooth, black glandular punctate on both surfaces, 35-89 cm long, 10-26 cm wide. primary lateral veins 9-15 per side, free to the margin, tertiary veins extending in a more or less parallel, ladder-like fashion between the primary lateral veins (scalariform). peduncle to 47 cm long, to 5 mm diam.; spathe pale green, tinged purple, oblong, to 9 cm long, to 1.5 cm wide; spadix violet-purple, cylindroid-tapered, to 10-16 cm long, to 5-7 mm diam,; Infructescence- berries, obovoid, whitish, to 6 mm long, to 4.5 mm wide.
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==External links==
The photo on this page does not show the characteristics in this scientific description and is possibly ''Anthurium plowmanii'' or a hybrid which includes that species as a parent.
*{{Commonscat-inline|Anthurium hookeri}}

Please note the following from the scientific information:

1) The venation of ''Anthurium hookeri'' is scalariforme. Scalariforme indicates a "ladder-like" arrangement to the major veins which should be evenly spaced.

2) The leaf margins are smooth.

3) ''Anthurium hookeri'' possesses tiny glandular punctuates on the leaves. Glandular punctate are tiny black-ish spots.

4) The berries of the inflorescence are white and not red as is often claimed on the internet.

5) The vernation of ''Anthurium hookeri'' is supervolute. The vernation or way a newly emerging leaf appears is convolute as well as similar to the shape of the tip of a conch shell. This is a fairly rare type of vernation in Araceae.

A complete discussion as well as photos of scientifically verified specimens from the Missouri Botanical Garden as well as a garden in France can be seen here:

http://www.exoticrainforest.com/Anthurium%20hookeri%20pc.html

This information was provided by Steve Lucas, www.ExoticRainforest.com
and is based upon discussions with aroid botanist Dr. Thomas B. Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis as well as aroid botanist David Scherberich in France.


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{{taxobox
|name = Bird's Nest Anthurium
|image = Anthurium hookeri.JPG
|regnum = [[Plantae]]
|unranked_divisio = [[Angiosperms]]
|unranked_classis = [[Monocots]]
|ordo = [[Alismatales]]
|familia = [[Araceae]]
|genus = ''[[Anthurium]]''
|species = '''''A. hookeri'''''
|binomial = ''Anthurium hookeri''
|binomial_authority = [[Kunth]]
|}}


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'''''Anthurium hookeri''''', the '''Bird's Nest Anthurium''', is a species of ''[[Anthurium]]''.
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Latest revision as of 05:28, 19 February 2023

Bird's nest anthurium
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Alismatales
Family: Araceae
Genus: Anthurium
Species:
A. hookeri
Binomial name
Anthurium hookeri

Anthurium hookeri, commonly called a bird's nest anthurium, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Anthurium.[1] Anthurium hookeri possesses some unique features which include, short internodes, dense roots, and lanceolate cataphylls. The leaves have triangular to D-shaped petioles 2–9 cm long, are rosulate, 10–26 cm wide, 35–89 cm long. The leaves exhibit a scalariforme venation and supervolute vernation. Covering the leaves are tiny black glandular punctuates. The berries produced by the plant are white.

Previously categorized in Anthurium sect. Pachyneurium which has superficially similar species, its colloquial name refers to the upright, nest-like appearance of its foliage. Specimens sold in the houseplant trade are almost always hybrids and not the species.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Anthurium hookeri". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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