Anthurium dolichostachyum

Anthurium angamarcanum, Sodiro 1903
Anthurium erythrocarpum, Sodiro 1903
Anthurium hickenii, Sodiro 1907
Anthurium hickenii var. leiophyllum, Sodiro 1908
Anthurium hickenii var. ovaliellipticum, Sodiro 1908
Anthurium wolfii, Sodiro 1903

dolichostachyum = possessing a long inflorescence

grows predominantly terrestrially in warm, moist rainforest along the Pacific Andes at elevations of 300-1500m.

The classification of Anthurium dolichostachyum is very difficult. On the one hand Sodiro described this species under 6 different synonyms, partly in the same year. The available herbarium material allows the assumption that it can be more than one species. This is contradicted by the strongly changing appearance with increasing age of the plant. Also the distribution seems to be over a larger area, which can be either local variants, but also independent species.