Aphelandra plant

Abstract

A sport of an Aphelandra squarrosa plant characterized by distinctive and attractive leaf color, which leaves exhibit a purplish red coloration in their midrib, petiole and abaxial surface of the blade.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of Aphelandra plant substantially as herein described, characterized particularly as to novelty by a distinctive and attractive leaf-color having a purplish red pigment in sub-epidermal tissues of the leaves and being particularly evident in both adaxial and abaxial surfaces of the leaf midrib and in coloration of the abaxial surfaces of the leaf blade.