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Anthurium cordatum (L.) Schott

Hand Leaf; Monkey Tail; Organ Mountain laceleaf

Araceae · Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant +1 · listed by its genus as a tropical foliage plant

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
23.5°C
Feb at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (sea cell) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
28°C
Aug and Sep at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
1,299mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
30–43DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in the habitat's months, not shifted
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
A sharp rainy season, May and July to December (the habitat's months, not shifted), in a year of even temperature. rain rule, CHELSA
Not shifted: the shift rule does not apply to this habitat. The chart is in the habitat's months.

About the genus · Anthurium

Anthurium is a genus of about 1,000 species of flowering plants, the largest genus of the arum family, Araceae. General common names include anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower, pigtail plant, and laceleaf.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Anthurium", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as a tropical foliage plant, listed under the genus Anthurium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “subshrub”, “wet tropical”.

Seasons

The rain rule reads a sharp season: 70% of the median year's rain (1,001 mm of 1,354 mm) falls in May and July to December. The temperature curve is flat, 2.5 °C between the warmest and coldest month, so the growing-season rule does not infer a growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere. The temperature curve moves under 4 °C between the warmest and coldest month, where the shift rule does not apply, so they are not shifted for a collection elsewhere.

Rain

1,354 mm in the median year at the habitat, 1,001 mm of it May and July to December. Wettest month November at 181 mm, driest month March at 52 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 1,185 mm to 2,510 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 1,299 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 1,354 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 30 to 43 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 29, the highest 90th-percentile month 44).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 23.5 °C in February (across the grid cells of the range 20.7 °C to 23.9 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 27.6 °C in August and September (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 23.5 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, February, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell that is mostly sea and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 66% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Group. Listed under the genus Anthurium in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “subshrub”, “wet tropical”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Anthurium cordatum through the yearWarmest months August and September, mean daily high 28 °C; coldest month February, mean nightly low 23.5 °C; 1,354 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.15°20°25°30°°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400mm rainDLI 30–43RH 62–66%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 26 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C25 / 23–2525 / 23–2525 / 24–2526 / 24–2627 / 25–2727 / 26–2727 / 26–2828 / 26–2828 / 26–2827 / 26–2827 / 25–2726 / 24–26
Night °C24 / 21–2424 / 21–2424 / 21–2424 / 22–2525 / 23–2525 / 23–2625 / 23–2626 / 23–2626 / 23–2625 / 23–2625 / 22–2524 / 22–25
Rain mm79 / 66–14957 / 48–10552 / 46–10081 / 66–130123 / 95–18184 / 76–222111 / 96–279136 / 110–312161 / 133–286178 / 154–280181 / 156–298111 / 98–189
DLI32 / 31–3436 / 35–3741 / 40–4243 / 43–4442 / 41–4342 / 40–4342 / 39–4241 / 39–4238 / 36–3934 / 33–3531 / 30–3230 / 29–32
RH %63 / 61–7162 / 60–7062 / 61–7064 / 62–7165 / 63–7265 / 63–7266 / 64–7366 / 64–7466 / 64–7466 / 64–7465 / 63–7464 / 62–71

The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 12% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum 20.3 °C, 1st-percentile night 21.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 28.3 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 26 grid cells holding the 43 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1466:2356 (16.675, -62.175). Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 26 distinct grid cells holding 43 of the 43 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1466:2356 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells, though its NASA POWER cell is only 12% land and none of the 11 next candidates within 2 °C of the median was mostly land); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 16.50_-61.875, lapse-corrected +290 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 320 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Windward Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker17.64, -63.234 · in the densest population, 44 records (56% of those in range)
Kew's description“subshrub” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 78 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 43 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 45 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 43 km away. 13 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 35 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 78 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Kurt Miller, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4); author not stated, no rights reserved · CC0 (2).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Tolumnia urophylla Tolumnia urophylla Dancing Lady Photo: CC0, Quentin Groom Maytenus laevigata Celastraceae Guettarda odorata Cucubano de vieques Pisonia subcordata Pisonia subcordata Mappo Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt MillerTetramicra canaliculata Tetramicra canaliculata Serpentine wallflower orchid Photo: CC0, author not statedRauvolfia viridis Rauvolfia viridis Antigua Balsam Photo: CC BY, Alex Doyle

Other Anthurium 111 in the reference

Anthurium acaule Anthurium acaule Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizAnthurium acutangulum Anthurium acutangulum Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Lena StruweAnthurium acutifolium Anthurium acutifolium Araceae Photo: CC BY, My-Lan LeAnthurium affine Anthurium affine Araceae Photo: CC BY-SA, vitordematos12Anthurium alatum Anthurium alatum Araceae Photo: CC BY, Skjold Søndergaard Anthurium amnicola Tulip anthurium Anthurium amoenum Araceae Anthurium andraeanum Anthurium andraeanum Flamingo-lily Photo: CC BY, Thorsten Hackbarth Anthurium angelopolisense Araceae Anthurium antioquiense Anthurium antioquiense Araceae Photo: CC BY, Connor Connolly-MoylsAnthurium atropurpureum Anthurium atropurpureum Araceae Photo: CC BY, fern WildtruthAnthurium bakeri Anthurium bakeri Araceae Photo: CC BY, River Ahlquist all 112 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Anthurium colocasiifolium; Anthurium commutatum; Anthurium concinnum; Anthurium fallax; Anthurium guildingii and 2 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araceae
Described by
(L.) Schott
Native to
Jamaica, Leeward Is. AB Ant, Windward Is.
Wild records
78 in range · 45 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 10 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 4 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 16.50_-61.875, lapse-corrected +290 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: NASA POWER's cell is mostly sea (12% land), so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Anthurium cordatum (L.) Schott (the item's: IPNI 15207-2, POWO 84691-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 20 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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