Anthurium ovatifolium

Anthurium ovatifolium ist eine Pflanzenart der Gattung Anthurium, die in Kolumbien, Ecuador und Peru beheimatet ist. Es wächst in nassen tropischen Lebensräumen und ist Mitglied der Sektion Digitinervium. Sein Artenname bezieht sich auf die ovale Form seiner Blätter, und es kann von ähnlichen Arten wie Anthurium lentii durch seine roten Beeren unterschieden werden.

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A member of sect. Digittinervium , this species is moderately common. It is easily distinguishable by its coriaceous blades with several pairs of basal veins which extend at least part of the way to the apex, the scalariform primary lateral veins, the dark glandular punctations on the lower blade surface and the early emergent red berries. The species is not confused with any other species at La Planada and is distinguished from members of sect. Porphyrochitonium which also have glandular punctations on at least the lower surface by the much larger leaf blades and the regular scalariform veins which extend between the basal veins. Elsewhere A. ovatifolium might be confused with A.lingua Sodiro but that species has blades which are typically narrowly ovate, not elliptic and dry light yellow-green instead of blackened.