Anthurium cuspidatum Mast.

Araceae

Collection NumberCroat, T 93458
CollectorsThomas B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry & Christopher Davidson
Identified By
SourceC. Davidson
Date16 August 2004
CountryEcuador
provinceCotopaxi
cantonLatacunga
LocationEstación Sacha Wiwa, Universidad Polytecnica Salesiana, 0.9 km N of Guasaganda-Pucayaca Rd. departing Hwy. 1.5 km N of Guasaganda, disturbed primary forest. 519 m elev.
Lat/LongS 00 47 55 W 79 09 06
NoteTerrestrial; internodes short, 1.5-2.0 cm diam., greenish brown, matte, transversely fissured; cataphyll fibers persisting with fragments of brown epidermis; petioles terete, dark green and glossy, 5 mm diam.; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and semiglossy, paler and semiglossy below; midrib narrowly acute and concolorous above, round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins deeply sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and paler below; spathe green, reflexed; spadix dark purple-violet; berries dark violet-purple to red-purple at base, dark violet-purple at apex.