Anthurium crystallinum

Surname: Anthurium crystallinum, Linden & André 1873
Synonyms: Anthurium crystallinum f. peltifolium, Engl.1905
Anthurium killipianum, L.Uribe 1948
etymology: crystallinum = like a crystal
Reproduction: Division
Origin: Panama, Colombia
Location:
along the Pacific Andes, terrestrial, litho- and epiphytic in semi-shaded to dark, moist warm places at altitudes of 500-1000m
Remarks: This species was discovered by Gustave Wallis, who was born in Lüneburg in 1830 and completed his gardening training in Detmold. From 1858 he worked for the Linden company in Belgium, which sent him to Brazil to collect orchids. There he completed one of the longest collecting trips ever, crossing the whole of South America from the source of the Amazon to the mouth.
In 1870 he travelled to the Philippines for Veitch & Sons, and in 1872 to Colombia again for Linden, where he discovered Anthurium crystallinum. He then travelled north to Panama, then south again to Ecuador, where he died of fever in a hospital in Cuenca in 1878.