Anthurium umbraculum Sodiro
Araceae
| Collection Number | Croat, T 96525 |
| Collectors | Thomas B. Croat, Christopher Davidson & Sharon R. Christoph |
| Identified By | T. B. Croat (MO) |
| Source | C. Davidson |
| Date | 27 March 2006 |
| Country | Ecuador |
| province | Pichincha |
| Location | Along road between Tandayapa and Mindo via Bellavista, vicinity of Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, along side road to Bellavista Scientific Research Station, 1.2 km S of Bellavista, 0.3-2 km W of Tandayapa-Mindo Road. 2260-2270 m elev. |
| Lat/Long | S 00 00 16 W 078 41 13 |
| Note | Terrestrial on steep bank or epiphytic; internodes short, cataphylls thin, semi-persistent (see photos); petioles subterete, 70-150 cm long, 1.3-1.7 cm diam., shallowly and bluntly sulcate, medium green, weakly glossy, smooth; blades subcoriaceous; 84-94 cm long, 64-75 cm wide; midrib paler, convex at base, bluntly acute in deep valley above, round-raised and paler, matte below; primary lateral veins narrowly raised in deep valleys, concolorous above; tertiary veins deeply sunken and concolorous above, arising from almost the lowermost basal veins; basal veins 10 pairs, 1-2 free to base, 7th-8th higher fused to 8-11 cm; posterior rib naked for 8-11 cm; inflorescence spreading; spathe 34-54 cm long, 1-1.2 cm diam. medium green, matte; spathe thin medium green, brittle, spreading, becoming, coiled longitudinally, often deciduous, 27-30 cm long, 3.7-4.4 cm wide, sometimes tinged purple adaxially; spadix 29 cm long pre-anthesis, 1.3 diam. at base, 9 mm midway, 4 cm diam. 1 cm from apex, pale grayish green, matte, becoming 62 cm long, 2.0 cm diam. at base, 1.2 cm diam. midway, 5 cm diam. near apex, post-anthesis dark green with protruding green pistils. |
Local Habitat
1.9km distance
| Location | Ecuador, Pichincha, Vicinity of Bellavista Cloud Forest Preserve, along side road to Bellavista Scientific Research Station and side road to Nanegalito, departing main Bellavista-Mindo Road, 1.2 km S of Bellavista, 0.3 km to 1 km west of Tandayapa-Mindo Road., S 00 01 16 W 078 41 07 |
| Date | 27 March 2006 |
| Ecology | Medium to high elevation cloud forest |
1.9km distance
| Location | Ecuador, Pichincha, vicinity of Bellavista Cloud Forest Preserve, along side road to Bellavista Scientific Research Station and side road to Nanegalito, departing main Bellavista-Mindo Road, 1.2 km S of Bellavista, 0.3 km to 1 km west of Tandayapa-Mindo Road., S 00 01 16 W 078 41 07 |
| Date | 27 March 2006 |
| Ecology | Montane rain forest. |
5.6km distance
| Location | Ecuador, Prov. Pichincha, Along road from Tandayapa to Mindo via Bellavista, 1.7-2.1 km not beyond Bellavista., S 00 01 02 W 078 44 07 |
| Date | 14 February 2005 |
| Ecology | Cloud forest. |
