Anthurium clavigerum
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| image = Anthurium clavigerum kz2.jpg
| image_caption = A. clavigerum growing at the Garfield Park Conservatory
| genus = Anthurium
| species = clavigerum
| authority = Poepp.
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Anthurium clavigerum is a species of plant in the genus Anthurium. Native to Central and South America, it ranges from Honduras to central and western Brazil.{{cite POWO |id=84666-1 |title=Anthurium clavigerum }} This epiphyte has distinctive leaves that are deeply lobed and sometimes sinuous edges.{{citation|author=Deni Bown|title=Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family|year=2000|publisher=Timber Press|isbn=978-0-88192-485-5|pages=37 }} The main stem can be several meters long and the palmate leaves can be {{convert|2|meters}} across, giving it the largest foliage of any Anthurium in Central America.{{Cite journal |last=T.b |first=Croat |date=1983 |title=A revision of the genus Anthurium (Araceae) of Mexico and Central America. I. Mexico and Middle America [Description, new taxa]. |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=A+revision+of+the+genus+Anthurium+%28Araceae%29+of+Mexico+and+Central+America.+I.+Mexico+and+Middle+America+%5BDescription%2C+new+taxa%5D.&author=Croat+T.B.&publication_year=1983 |journal=Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden |language=English |pages=2,180–181 |issn=0026-6493}}{{Cite web |title=Anthurium clavigerum |url=https://www.nparks.gov.sg/florafaunaweb/flora/7/0/7074 |website=Flora & Fauna Web |publisher=National Parks Board}}{{Cite journal |last=Madison |first=Michael |date=1978 |title=The Species of Anthurium with Palmately Divided Leaves |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41759471 |journal=Selbyana |volume=2 |issue=2/3 |pages=239–282 |jstor=41759471 |issn=0361-185X}}
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Category:Plants described in 1845
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