Surname: Anthurium effusilobum, Croat 2005
etymology: effusilobum: effusus=scattered, disorderly; lobum=lobe, lip
Reproduction: Division
Origin: Ecuador, Peru
Location: grows mostly terrestrially along the Pacific Andes in sheltered, shady to dark, always moist places at altitudes of 500m - 1500m
Remarks:
Two varieties of this species are known:
Anthurium effusilobum var. effusilobum is characterized by a dark purple spadix and is found near Tena in Pastaza, Ecuador.
Anthurium effusilobum var. pallidispadix is ​​characterized by a light green to cream-colored spadix and is found further north.