Quick Facts
- Anubias afzelii Schott
- Narrow-leafed, medium-sized Anubias
- Characteristics: plant with stolon
- Leaf-stem: up to 20 cm
- Leaves: 13–35 cm long, 3–13 cm broad
- Height in aquarium: 25 – 30 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 22 - 27 °C
- pH: 6.0 - 7.0
- Water hardness: 2 dGH - 6 dGH
- Position in aquarium: middle to back
- Usual growth rate: one leaf every 2 months
- Anubias barteri Schott
Common varieties:
- Anubias barteri var. angustifolia (Engler) Crusio
- Synonym: Anubias lanceolata f. angustifolia Engler
- Narrow leafs, similar to afzelii, but much smaller
- Leaf-stem: up to 32 cm
- Leaves: up to 18 cm long, up to 3.5 cm wide
- Height in aquarium: 10 – 15 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 20 - 27 °C
- pH: 5.5 - 8.0
- Water hardness: < 8 dGH
- Position in aquarium: middle
- Usual growth rate: one leaf every 2 months
- Anubias barteri var. barteri
- Compact, heart-shaped anubias
- Leaf-stem: up to 23 cm
- Leaves: 7–23 cm long, 4–11 cm wide
- Height in aquarium: 25 – 45 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 20 - 27 °C
- pH: 5.5 - 9.0
- Water hardness: < 20 dGH
- Position in aquarium: back
- Usual growth rate: one leaf every 3 months
- Anubias barteri var. caladiifolia Engler
- Heart-shaped anubias
- Leaf-stem: up to 54 cm
- Leaves: 10–23 cm long, 5–14 cm wide
- Height in aquarium: 7 – 30 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 20 - 27 °C
- pH: 5.5 - 8.0
- Water hardness: < 20 dGH
- Position in aquarium: middle to back
- Usual growth rate: one leaf every 2 months
- "Anubias barteri var. coffeefolia"
- New leaves are red-brown
Several varieties of Anubias barteri (and also some specimens of some other species) will sometimes produce red-brown leaves. Although these plants have been traded under the name "Anubias barteri var. coffeefolia", this name has no taxonomic status. Leave color is not important in determining to which Anubias species a certain plant belongs.
- Anubias barteri var. glabra N. E. Brown
- Synonyms: Anubias lanceolata N. E. Brown, Anubias minima Chevalier.
- Narrow-leafed, large anubias
- Leaf-stem: up to 35 cm long
- Leaves: spear-shaped, up to 21 cm long, 9 cm wide
- Height in aquarium: 30 – 50 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 22 - 27 °C
- pH: 5.5 - 8.0
- Water hardness: < 20 dGH
- Position in aquarium: back
- Usual growth rate: 4 - 8 leaves per year
- Anubias barteri var. nana (Engler) Crusio
- Synonym: Anubias nana Engler
- Dwarf, creeping, with heart-shaped leaves
- Leaf-stem: up to 5 cm long
- Leaves: up to 6 cm long and 3 cm wide
- Height in aquarium: 5 – 10 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 22 - 27 °C
- pH: 5.5 - 9.0
- Water hardness: 3 - 10 dGH
- Position in aquarium: front
- Usual growth rate: one leaf every month
- Anubias gigantea Chevalier ex Hutchinson
- Synonyms: Anubias gigantea var. tripartita Chevalier, Anubias hastifolia var. robusta Engler
- Large arrow-shaped leaves
- Leaf-stem: up to 83 cm long
- Leaves: up to 30 cm long and 14 cm wide, with large lateral lobes up to 28 cm long and 10 cm broad
- Seldomly used in aquariums
- Anubias gilletii De Wildeman & Durand
- Initially heart-shaped, later with long rear fringes
- Leaf-stem: up to 40 cm
- Leaves: arrow-shaped, 25 cm long, 12 – 13 cm wide, lateral lobes up to 13 cm long
- Height in aquarium: 25 – 40 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 22 - 27 °C
- pH: 6.0 - 8.0
- Water hardness: 4 - 10 dGH
- Position in aquarium: back
- Usual growth rate: 2 - 6 leaves per year
- Anubias gracilis Chevalier ex Hutchinson
- Whether this is a separate species or another variety of Anubias barteri is doubtful
- Leaf-stem: up to 33 cm
- Leaves: triangular heart-shaped, 12 cm long, 4–10 cm wide, lateral lobes up to 7 cm long and 3 cm wide
- Height in aquarium: 20 – 30 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 24 - 27 °C
- pH: 6.0 - 8.0
- Water hardness: 5 - 12 dGH
- Position in aquarium: middle to back
- Usual growth rate: 2 - 6 leaves per year
- Anubias hastifolia Engler
- Synonyms: Amauriella hastifolia (Engler) Hepper, Anubias hastifolia var. sublobata Engler, Anubias auriculata Engler, Amauriella auriculata (Engler) Hepper, Anubias haullevilleana De Wildeman, Anubias laurentii De Wildeman, Amauriella obanensis Rendle, Amauriella talbotii Rendle
- Leaves: long heart-shaped
- Leaf-stem: up to 67 cm long
- Leaves: up to 33 cm long and 14 cm wide, lateral lobes up to 26 cm long and 8 cm broad
- Height in aquarium: 30 – 50 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 22 - 27 °C
- pH: 6.0 - 8.0
- Water hardness: < 20 dGH
- Position in aquarium: middle to back
- Usual growth rate: 2 - 6 leaves per year
- Anubias heterophylla Engler
- Synonyms: Anubias congensis N. E. Brown, Anubias congensis var. crassispadix Engler, Anubias affinis De Wildeman, Anubias engleri De Wildeman, Anubias bequertii De Wildeman, Anubias undulata (trade name)
- Very large species, for tall aquariums
- Leaf-stem: up to 66 cm long
- Leaves: 38 cm long, 13 cm wide, sometimes with very short basal lobes
- Height in aquarium: 25 – 60 cm
Optimal conditions:
- Temperature: 24 - 27 °C
- pH: 5.5 - 8.0
- Water hardness: 5 - 12 dGH
- Position in aquarium: back
- Usual growth rate: 2 - 4 leaves per year
- Anubias pynaertii De Wildeman
- Leaf-stem: up to 45 cm
- Leaves: up to 29 cm long and 14 cm broad
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