Anubias barteri bar. glabra

[tenellus]

Hello,
I have at home the Kasselmann’s atlas and the book Anubias of Otto Gartner, but I’m not sure if my plant is var. glabra or angustifolia. The petiole are brown and the leaves very narrow lanceolate as var. angustifolia but wavy like var. glabra.
Thank you from Roma
Isaia

 

[tenellus]

Hallo!
Sorry for the quality of the pictures.
Could be help…
Isaia

 

[Frank2]

For me it looks like glabra. There are varieties from glabra and not only one appearance. The wavy leaf is typical für glabra. Also the leaf is more soft than from Angustifolia .

Gruß Frank

 

[tenellus]

Hallo Frank,
Thank you. I suppose it to. A. glabra with leaves very narrow lanceolate.
Isaia

 

[Heiko Muth (Sumpfheini)]

Hello Isaia,
this looks to me like the plant that's traded for a long time as "Anubias minima" and is counted among var. glabra. It has also been labelled as "Anubias Kruising" by a Dutch nursery. A. barteri var. glabra apparently includes different forms with more or less ovate, elliptical to lanceolate leaves. I also find the distinction from var. angustifolia rather arbitrary. Tropica had long sold a form as "angustifolia", which is now labelled var. glabra and differs from "A. minima", i.a. no wavy margin (and also has broader leaves than true var. angustifolia as it's shown in the Kasselmann book). The glabra photo in the Flowgrow plant database shows yet another glabra form, from Cameroon, broader-leaved than ‘minima’, leaf margin not wavy, too.

 

[Frank2]

Isaia , because of your thread i bought a Glabra yesterday . Emers of course.
In the back. So i am curious what will happen.

Frank

 

[tenellus]

Hello Heiko,
Thank you, I suppose my Anubias is the A. 'minima' from Dutch nursery...

Hello Frank,
my Anubias is completely different from your, it looks softer, narrower and with wavy margin, even when I bought the plant (emersed). Your Anubias matchs with the description of Heiko about the plant from Tropica and it is very similar to A. afzelii in Otto Gartner book.
Have a good evening
Isaia