Anthurium crenatum(L.) Kunth

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WFO wfo-0000223918 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Anthurium crenatum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-02-12 / obs. 61434352
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61101309
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by ritirene
fig. c ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145142502
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61434346
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. e Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61101288
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by ritirene
fig. f ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164657958
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by ritirene
fig. g ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145031567
Anthurium crenatum, photographed by ritirene
fig. h ritirene, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145142477

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 758726
Filed as
Anthurium crenatum (L.) Kunth
Det. by
Mayo, S.
Collected
E. G. Britton & D. W. Marble 1913-03-20
Origin
PR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 3 botanical countries

Regions where Anthurium crenatum is native: Dominican Republic, Leeward Is., Puerto Rico Dominican RepublicPuerto Rico Leeward Is.
Native distribution of Anthurium crenatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Dominican Republic DOM SOUTHERN AMERICA
Leeward Is. LEE
Puerto Rico PUE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 250 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 18.2 °C 21.7 °C 24.1 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 26.8 °C 29.3 °C 31.0 °C
Annual rainfall 1,270 mm 1,766 mm 2,399 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 145 mm 284 mm 383 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 250 research-grade observations of Anthurium crenatum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 7 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anthurium acaule var. brevipes Engl.
  • Anthurium acaule var. portoricense Kuntze
  • Anthurium acaule var. portoricensis Kuntze
  • Anthurium acaule var. scolopendrium (Spreng.) Kuntze
  • Anthurium attenuatum Miq.
  • Pothos crenatus L.
  • Pothos scolopendrius Spreng.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.