Anubias

Schott
Description: 
Evergreen herbs; rhizome thick, creeping, with short internodes. Leaves several; petiole usually smooth, rarely shortly and sparsely spiny, geniculate apically; sheath relatively short; blade simple to trifid, lanceolate, ovate, elliptic, nearly triangular to subsagittate, glabrous or midrib and primary veins densely pilose abaxially, primary lateral veins pinnate, secondary lateral veins parallel-pinnate, tertiaries transverse between them. Inflorescence 1
Distribution: 
Species 8, tropical west and central Africa; sthn trop. Afr. 1: Anubias heterophylla Engl., Angola.
Source: 
SSTA
Synonym(s): 
Amauriella Rendle: 115 (1913).
Classification: 
ARACEAE

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