Anubias barteri var. angustifolia

Anubias barteri

A variety of:Anubias

The narrowest-leaved variety of Anubias barteri: the blades are linear to very narrowly elliptic, with a straight edge. It is often sold under the mistaken name 'Anubias afzelii'.

Light: low
Difficulty: very easy
Height: 3 – 40 cm (1.2 – 16 in)
Temperature: 12 – 30 °C (54 – 86 °F)

Leaf colour: green
Plant type: rhizome
Growth rate: slow
CO₂ demand: low
Tolerates light: low – high
pH: 5 – 8
Carbonate hardness: 0 – 21 °dKH
General hardness: 0 – 30 °dGH
Placement: on stone and wood +5 on stone and wood, cichlid-proof, midground, background, foreground, nano tank
Propagation: rhizome division, division +1 rhizome division, division, daughter plants
Grows emersed: yes

Appearance

Blades 10–30 cm long, linear to very narrowly elliptic, with a straight, not wavy, edge; the leaf stalks are often reddish-brown. It resembles var. glabra, whose leaves are elliptic to lanceolate. Height up to 30 cm — relatively tall for the species.

Keeping

Just as easy to keep as var. nana, but less well known. Growth slow, light from dim to bright, CO₂ 5–40 mg/l, temperature 22–26 °C.

Placement

Tie it to a stone or a piece of driftwood, or plant it in the substrate. Suited to a cichlid tank and to the midground.

Trade names

Often sold under the mistaken name 'Anubias afzelii'; the true Anubias afzelii is considerably larger and is itself often sold as 'Anubias congensis'.

Water conditions match

The water suits 1034 of 1249 species in the catalogue — these are the ones people look up most often.

Swordtail Guppies Cobra Guppy Blood Red Molly Butterflyfish Red Zebra Cichlid Julii Corydoras Featherfin Synodontis Red-finned Parotocinclus Gastromyzon monticola Egg-shaped Goldfish Flame Tetra Gardner's Killifish African Tetra Kenyi Cichlid Cuckoo Catfish Golden Swordtail Hypsolebias picturatus Common Zacco Labeo Bicolor Gambusia Flying barb Gastromyzon scitulus Albino Zebra Danio Geophagus Brokopondo

Will eat this plant

These species damage plants, especially when their diet is short of vegetable food.

Bengal Loach Zebra Loach Burmese Border Loach Emperor Botia Spined Loach Marbled Headstander Pellegrin's Leporinus Leporinus striatus False Black Tetra Common Metynnis Mylossoma duriventre Red Whiptail Catfish Molly sphenops Balloon Molly Lyretail Molly Marble Molly Hi-Fin Platy Hawaii Platy Blue Platy Pintail Platy Black Platy Chocolate Molly Moonlight Gourami Melanotaenia parva

Matching water does not mean the fish will leave the plant alone.

Scientific and other names, conservation status

Other scientific names: Anubias lanceolata N. E. Brown, Anubias minima Chevalier
Family: Araceae
Conservation status: LC