Anthurium balaoanum seedling

Anthurium latifolium
Anthurium bulaoanum Engl., (1898), nomen invalidum.

• Often sold as Anthurium guildingii
• Sometimes confused with Anthurium dolichostachyum

balaoanum = Balao, small town in Ecuador, south of Guayaquil in the estuary of the Rio Guayas

hemiepiphytic on trees in tropical warm rainforest from sea level to 2000m altitude.

There are reports of this species that the leaves (on the same plant) are very variable in detail. What is meant is that the third leaf can look different from the second, and when the fourth leaf grows, this is also different again. (Ratio length:width, texture from soft to leathery).