Anthurium bertilii Croat

Araceae

Collection Number	Croat, T 93314
Collectors	Thomas B. Croat, X. Cornejo, C. Davidson, G. Ferry
Identified By	Thomas Croat (MO), 2017
Source	C. Davidson
Date	14 August 2004

Country	Ecuador
province	Los Rios
canton	Babahoyo
Location	Clementina Farms, Cerro Samama, 5.7 km S and W of main Pueblo-Viejo-Caluma Road, 5.2 km W from bridge over Río Pita, (turnoff is 6.3 km E from Potosí). 371 - 600 m elev.
Lat/Long	S 01 38 51 W 079 19 52
Note	Epiphyte at 15 m; internodes short, 6 cm diam.; cataphyll fibers persisting in netlike reticulum; petioles terete, narrowly and obtusely sulcate, medium green, weakly glossy; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and glossy above, paler and glossy below; midrib narrowly rounded and paler above near base, acute toward apex, narrowly rounded and paler below with an acute rib; primary lateral veins bluntly acute and paler above, acute and moderately paler below; tertiary veins in part weakly raised below; inflorescence spreading; spathe purplish violet, semiglossy outside, darker and glossier inside, with paler veins; spadix 3.1 cm diam., matte, dark violet-purple, stipitate 1 cm long.

Local Habitat

0km distance

Location	Ecuador, Prov. Bolivar, Clementina Farms, Cerro Samama, 5.7 km S and W of main Pueblo-Viejo-Caluma Road, 5.2 km W from bridge over R¡o Pita, (turnoff is 6.3 km E from Potos¡)., S 01 38 51 W 079 19 52
Date	14 August 2004
Ecology	Pacific slope moist forest.

0.3km distance

Location	Ecuador, Los R¡os, Cerro Samama, SE of Potosí, SW of Caluma, South of Río Pita, vicinity of village of Pita, between Pita and Escuela 18 de Deciembre., S 01 38 44 W 079 19 58
Date	18 March 2006
Comment	This small frog was in the leaf litter.

0.3km distance

Location	Ecuador, Los R¡os, Cerro Samama, SE of Potosí, SW of Caluma, South of Río Pita, vicinity of village of Pita, between Pita and Escuela 18 de Deciembre., S 01 38 44 W 079 19 58
Date	18 March 2006
Comment	Scarabaeidae on a fern