plant named ‘AN2494662’

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Anthurium plant named ‘AN2494662’, characterized by its upright to outwardly arching and uniform plant habit; freely clumping growth habit; bushy and dense plants; narrowly cordate dark green-colored leaves; freely flowering habit; inflorescences that are positioned within to slightly above the foliar plane on strong and erect scapes; broadly cordate dark reddish orange-colored spathes and white and yellow-colored spadices; and durable spathes that impart good inflorescence longevity.

Description

Botanical designation: Anthurium andreanum

Cultivar denomination: ‘AN2494662’

STATEMENT REGARDING PRIOR DISCLOSURES BY INVENTOR AND APPLICANT/ASSIGNEE:

An European Community Plant Breeder's Rights application for the instant plant was filed by the Applicant/Assignee of the instant application, Anthura B.V. of Bleiswijk, The Netherlands on Nov. 22, 2022, application number 2022/2628. Foreign priority is not claimed to this application.

The Inventor and Applicant/Assignee assert that no sales, offers for sale or public distribution of the instant plant occurred more than one year prior to the effective filing date of this application.

Any information about the claimed plant would have been obtained from a direct or indirect disclosure from the Inventor and/or Applicant/Assignee. Inventor and Applicant/Assignee claim a prior art exception under 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(1) for disclosures and/or sales prior to the filing date but less than one year prior to the effective filing date.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Anthurium plant, botanically known as Anthurium andreanum and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘AN2494662’.

The new Anthurium plant is a product of a controlled breeding program conducted by the Inventor in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands. The objective of the breeding program is to create new freely-clumping Anthurium plants with attractive, durable and glossy spathes.

The new Anthurium plant originated from a cross-pollination made by the Inventor in March 2011 in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands of a proprietary selection of Anthurium andreanum identified as code number 07-016671-0011, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent with a proprietary selection of Anthurium andreanum identified as code number 05-011081-0001, not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Anthurium was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands in March 2013.

Asexual reproduction of the new Anthurium plant by in vitro meristem propagation in a controlled environment in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands since June, 2015 has shown that the unique features of this new Anthurium are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Plants of the new Anthurium have not been observed under all possible combinations of environmental conditions and cultural practices. The phenotype may vary somewhat with variations in environment conditions such as temperature and light intensity, without, however, any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined to be the unique characteristics of ‘AN2494662’. These characteristics in combination distinguish ‘AN2494662’ as a new and distinct Anthurium plant:

• • 1. Upright to outwardly arching and uniform plant habit.
  • 2. Freely clumping growth habit; bushy and dense plants.
  • 3. Narrowly cordate dark green-colored leaves.
  • 4. Freely flowering habit.
  • 5. Inflorescences that are positioned within to slightly above the foliar plane on strong and erect scapes.
  • 6. Broadly cordate dark reddish orange-colored spathes and white and yellow-colored spadices.
  • 7. Durable spathes that impart good inflorescence longevity.

Plants of the new Anthurium differ primarily from plants of the female parent selection in the following characteristics:

• • 1. Plants of the new Anthurium are more freely clumping than plants of the female parent selection.
  • 2. Spathes of plants of the new Anthurium are flat to slightly convex whereas spathes of plants of the female parent selection are concave.

Plants of the new Anthurium differ primarily from plants of the male parent selection in the following characteristics:

• • 1. Plants of the new Anthurium are more freely clumping than plants of the male parent selection.
  • 2. Leaves of plants of the new Anthurium are narrowly cordate in shape whereas leaves of plants of the male parent selection are ovate to cordate in shape.
  • 3. Spathes of plants of the new Anthurium are smaller than spathes of plants of the male parent selection.

Plants of the new Anthurium can also be compared to plants of Anthurium andreanum ‘Anthfablo’, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 30,547. In side-by-side comparisons, plants of the new Anthurium differ primarily from plants of ‘Anthfablo’ in the following characteristics:

• • 1. Spathes of plants of the new Anthurium are not as rugose as spathes of plants of ‘Anthfablo’.
  • 2. Spadices of plants of the new Anthurium are straighter than and not as curving as spadices of plants of ‘Anthfablo’.
  • 3. Spadices of plants of the new Anthurium are not as tapering as spadices of plants of ‘Anthfablo’.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS

The accompanying photographs illustrate the overall appearance of the new Anthurium. The photographs show the colors as true as it is reasonably possible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. Colors in the photographs may differ slightly from the color values cited in the detailed botanical description which accurately describe the colors of the new Anthurium.

The photograph on the first sheet (FIG. 1) is a side perspective view of a typical plant of ‘AN2494662’ grown in a container.

The photograph on the second sheet (FIG. 2) is a close-up view of typical inflorescences of ‘AN2494662’.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

The aforementioned photographs and following observations and measurements describe plants grown in 12-cm containers in Bleiswijk, The Netherlands during the late autumn in a glass-covered greenhouse. Plants were grown under conditions and practices which approximate those generally used in commercial Anthurium production. During the production of the plants, day and night temperatures ranged from about 19° C. to 22.5° C. and light levels ranged from 100 μmol to 200 μmol. Plants were ten months old when the photographs and the detailed description were taken. In the following description, color references are made to The Royal Horticultural Society Colour Chart, 2015 Edition, except where general terms of ordinary dictionary significance are used.

BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION Anthurium andreanum ‘AN2494662’.

PARENTAGE

• Female, or seed, parent: Proprietary selection of Anthurium andreanum identified as code number 07-016671-0011, not patented.
• Male, or pollen, parent: Proprietary selection of Anthurium andreanum identified as code number 05-011081-0001, not patented.

PROPAGATION

• Type: By in vitro meristem propagation.
• Time to initiate roots, summer and winter: About two weeks at temperatures about 19° C. to 22.5° C.
• Time to produce a rooted young plant, summer and winter: About six to eight weeks at temperatures about 19° C. to 22.5° C.
• Root description: Medium in thickness, fibrous; typically creamy white tinged with pink in color, actual color of the roots is dependent on substrate composition, water quality, fertilizer type and formulation, substrate temperature and physiological age of roots.
• Rooting habit: Freely branching, medium density.

PLANT DESCRIPTION

• Plant shape: Upright to outwardly spreading and uniform plant habit; overall shape, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic.
• Growth habit: Freely clumping habit with about seven clumps per plant imparting a bushy and dense appearance; moderately vigorous growth habit and moderate growth rate.
• Plant height, from soil level to top of leaf plane: About 23.1 cm.
• Plant height, from soil level to top of inflorescences: About 30.7 cm.
• Plant diameter or spread: About 35.7 cm.

LEAF DESCRIPTION

• Arrangement: Alternate; simple; about three leaves per clump.
• Length: About 16.1 cm.
• Width: About 9.6 cm.
• Shape: Narrowly cordate.
• Apex: Apiculate with mucronate apex.
• Base: Shallowly cordate to cordate.
• Margin: Entire; slightly and coarsely undulate.
• Texture and luster, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous; moderately leathery; glossy.
• Venation pattern: Pinnate.
• Color:
  • • Developing leaves, upper surface.—Close to a blend of N199A and N199B tinged with close to 146A.
    • Developing leaves, lower surface.—Close to N199A tinged with close to 146B.
    • Fully expanded leaves, upper surface.—Slightly darker than a blend of NN137A and 139A; venation, close to 144A.
    • Fully expanded leaves, lower surface.—Close to 146A; venation, close to N144C.
• Petioles:
  • • Length.—About 17.2 cm.
    • Diameter.—Distally, about 3 mm; proximally, about 4 mm.
    • Strength.—Strong.
    • Texture and luster, upper and lower surfaces.—Smooth, glabrous; moderately glossy.
    • Color, upper and lower surfaces.—Close to 144A.
    • Geniculum length.—About 2.1 cm.
    • Geniculum diameter.—About 3.5 mm.
    • Geniculum texture and luster, upper and lower surfaces.—Smooth, glabrous; slightly glossy.
    • Geniculum color, upper surface.—Close to a blend of 143A and 144A.
    • Geniculum color, lower surface.—Slightly darker than 144A.
    • Wing length.—About 1.8 cm.
    • Wing diameter.—About 4 mm.
    • Wing color.—Close to 145A.

INFLORESCENCE DESCRIPTION

• Inflorescence arrangement and flowering habit: Spathes with spadices held within and slightly above the foliar plane on strong and erect scapes; flowering structures arise from leaf axils; freely and continuous flowering year-round in controlled temperature greenhouses in The Netherlands; typically about seven developing and developed inflorescences per plant at one time; inflorescence development commences about 2.5 to 3.5 months after planting.
• Inflorescence longevity: Spathes maintain good substance for about two months on the plant; inflorescences persistent.
• Fragrance: None detected.
• Spathes:
  • • Length.—About 7.1 cm.
    • Width.—About 7.4 cm.
    • Shape.—Broadly cordate; flat to slightly convex.
    • Apex.—Abruptly acute with a mucronate tip.
    • Base.—Cordate.
• Margin: Entire; slightly and coarsely undulate.
• Aspect: At about 110° from the peduncle axis.
• Texture and luster, upper and lower surfaces: Smooth, glabrous; moderately leathery; glossy.
• Color:
  • • When developing, front surface.—Close to 44B; towards the base, close to 43B; narrow marginal edge, close to 46A; mucronate tip, close to 151D.
    • When developing, rear surface.—Close to 44C and 44D; towards the base, close to 48A and 48B; narrow marginal edge, close to a blend of 44B and 44C; mucronate tip, close to 151B; venation, close to 146A and 146B.
    • Fully developed, front surface.—Close to 44B; towards the base, close to 43A; mucronate tip, close to 151D; with subsequent development, color becoming closer to 43A and towards the base, strongly tinged with close to 143A and 143B, with venation, close to 143A and 143B.
    • Fully developed, rear surface.—Close to 44D; towards the base, close to 48B; narrow marginal edge, close to 47C; mucronate tip, close to 151B; venation, close to 146A and 146B; with subsequent development, color becoming closer to 44D and towards the base, close to 146C, with venation, close to 143A.
• Spadices:
  • • Length.—About 3.2 cm.
    • Diameter.—About 8 mm.
    • Shape.—Columnar, slightly tapering towards the apex; apex, obtuse; base, obtuse; in cross-section, rounded.
    • Aspect.—About 80° from the spathe axis and about 5° from the peduncle axis.
    • Color.—Immature: Close to 13A. Mature: Close to 158D; with subsequent development, distally, close to 158B and 158C.
    • Flowers.—Type: Hermaphroditic. Quantity per spadix: Numerous, about 240. Height: Less than 0.5 mm. Diameter: About 1.5 mm. Shape: Roughly square. Anther color: Close to 158D. Pollen amount: None observed. Stigma color: Close to 158D.
• Scape:
  • • Length.—About 22.2 cm.
    • Diameter.—About 3 mm.
    • Strength.—Strong.
    • Aspect.—About 15° from vertical.
    • Color.—Close to 144A.
• Seed and fruit: To date, seed and fruit development has not been observed on plants of the new Anthurium.

PATHOGEN & PEST RESISTANCE

To date, plants of the new Anthurium have not been observed to be resistant to pathogens or pests common to Anthurium plants.

TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE

Plants of the new Anthurium have been observed to be tolerant to high temperatures about 30° C. and to be hardy to USDA Hardiness Zone 10.

Claims

1. A new and distinct Anthurium plant named ‘AN2494662’ as illustrated and described.