Anubias barteri var. glabra

Anubias barteri

A variety of:Anubias

A variety of Anubias barteri with elliptic to lanceolate leaves, widespread in the West African tropics, from Guinea to Gabon. In the trade it is also found as 'Anubias minima' and 'Anubias lanceolata'.

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

A collective name for forms of various sizes with elliptic to lanceolate leaves; it is not always possible to separate it clearly from the other varieties. It resembles var. angustifolia, but that one has more elongated blades. Height 10–20 cm, plant width 10–30 cm.

Keeping

Less well known than var. nana, but just as undemanding. Growth very slow. Light from dim to bright, CO₂ 5–40 mg/l, temperature 22–26 °C.

Placement

Tie it to a stone or wood, wedge it between stones, attach it with suckers to the glass, or plant it in the substrate — keep the horizontal stem above the substrate, or it will rot. Midground and foreground, cichlid tanks, nano aquarium.

Trade names

Small plants were imported from Cameroon as 'Anubias minima' and are still labelled that way. 'Anubias lanceolata' is also a synonym, used for larger plants with narrowly lanceolate leaves. 'Anubias kruising' is also placed here.

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