''Anthurium lentii'' is a species of flowering plant in the family

Araceae The Araceae are a family of monocotyledonous flowering plants in which flowers are borne on a type of inflorescence called a spadix. The spadix is usually accompanied by, and sometimes partially enclosed in, a spathe (or leaf-like bract). Also ...

, native to

Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with Insular region of Colombia, insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuel ...

Costa Rica Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in Central America. It borders Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, as well as Maritime bo ...

and

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

. It grows in wet tropical habitats, and is a member of section ''Digitinervium''.

Description

''Anthurium lentii'' is a terrestrial or epithytic

perennial In horticulture, the term perennial ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. It has thus been defined as a plant that lives more than 2 years. The term is also ...

subshrub A subshrub (Latin ''suffrutex'') or undershrub is either a small shrub (e.g. prostrate shrubs) or a perennial that is largely herbaceous but slightly woody at the base (e.g. garden pink and florist's chrysanthemum). The term is often interch ...

. Height is ; stems are usually short and about in diameter. Leaves are in length; broad, ovate, glabrous, mid-green, with prominent veins. The

inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...

is erect to spreading, with a peduncle long and in diameter. Flowers are contained in tight spirals on a spadix which is elongated into a spike shape. The

spathe In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale. Bracts are usually different from foliage leaves in size, color, shape or texture. They also look ...

is green to greenish-purple; narrowly ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, long and wide. The spadix is purple, long and measuring in diameter at base. Immature berries are white, oblong-linear, square in cross-section, and long. Mature berries are purple, ovoid and prominently beaked, the basal portion in diameter, round in cross-section, the beak reddish-violet.

Toxicity

All parts of the plant contain

calcium oxalate Calcium oxalate (in archaic terminology, oxalate of lime) is a calcium salt of oxalic acid with the chemical formula or . It forms hydrates , where ''n'' varies from 1 to 3. Anhydrous and all hydrated forms are colorless or white. The monohydr ...

crystals, an irritant to the mouth and esophagus. It is toxic to cats and dogs.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15319738 lentii Flora of Colombia Flora of Costa Rica Flora of Panama Plants described in 1979