Anthurium gracile(Rudge) Lindl.

WFO wfo-0000225687 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Anthurium gracile, photographed by Vincent A. Vos
fig. a Vincent A. Vos, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-04-24 / obs. 68484308
Anthurium gracile, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. b Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 50519239
Anthurium gracile, photographed by Letizia Weichgrebe
fig. c Letizia Weichgrebe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 51133688
Anthurium gracile, photographed by Aitor
fig. d Aitor, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46015933
Anthurium gracile, photographed by fern Wildtruth
fig. e fern Wildtruth, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183344829
Anthurium gracile, photographed by Guillaume Delaitre
fig. f Guillaume Delaitre, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172536214
Anthurium gracile, photographed by Martha Lucia Ortiz-Moreno
fig. g Martha Lucia Ortiz-Moreno, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118192947
Anthurium gracile, photographed by Jared Shorma
fig. h Jared Shorma, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54910901

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
01073749
Filed as
Anthurium gracile (Rudge) Schott
Det. by
T. B. Croat 1984-01-01
Collected
T. C. Plowman 1982-12-06
Origin
BR
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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 18 botanical countries

Regions where Anthurium gracile is native: Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela BelizeBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasNicaraguaPanamáPeruSurinameTrinidad-TobagoVenezuela
Native distribution of Anthurium gracile, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Belize BLZ SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guatemala GUA
Guyana GUY
Honduras HON
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Venezuela VEN

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 202 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 16.7 °C 21.2 °C 23.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.0 °C 29.9 °C 32.1 °C
Annual rainfall 1,664 mm 3,129 mm 4,927 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 95 mm 281 mm 819 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 202 research-grade observations of Anthurium gracile 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 17 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 acuminatum Schott
  • Anthurium belangeri Engl.
  • Anthurium gracile subsp. belangeri Engl.
  • Anthurium gracile var. poiteanum (Kunth) Engl.
  • Anthurium inconditum Schott
  • Anthurium longipes Matuda
  • Anthurium macilentum Schott
  • Anthurium poiteanum Kunth
  • Anthurium poiteauanum Schott
  • Anthurium rudgeanum Schott
  • Anthurium scolopendrinum Kunth
  • Anthurium scolopendrinum var. belangeri (Engl.) Engl.
  • Anthurium scolopendrinum var. contractum Engl.
  • Anthurium scolopendrinum var. poiteanum (Kunth) Engl.
  • Pothos gracilis Rudge
  • Pothos scolopendrinus Ham.
  • Pothos scolopendrioides Desf.

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. 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.