Anthurium magnificum

• Anthurium sanderi, Sander 1908
• non Anthurium magnificum, Bull 1865 = Anthurium grande, Bull 1865

magnificum = great, excellent

The species is considered endemic to altitudes of 800 - 2125 in the Colombian Cordillera, where it grows primarily epiphytic in warm, humid climates. However, it has now been reported in Panama and there are reports of Anthurium magnificum spreading as an invasive species in southern China..

Anthurium magnificum LINDEN was found by Braam, collector for Linden, in the Eastern Cordillera. Linden showed the foliage plant in 1865 at the exhibition in Amsterdam, where it achieved great attention:
"Our accompanying plate cannot reproduce the beauty of these excellent plants, for once the leaves attain a diameter of 1.5 - 2 feet, and then the olive-green surface with white markings along the veins, possesses that peculiar beautiful metallic luster which no brush can reproduce.".(translated from Gartenflora Vol. 15).