Philodendron tenue K. Koch & Augustin
Araceae
| Collection Number | Croat, T 93377 |
| Collectors | Thomas B. Croat, X. Cornejo, C. Davidson, G. Ferry |
| Identified By | T. B. Croat (MO) |
| 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 2 m tall; internodes to 4 cm long, 1 cm diam.; cataphyll fibers pale; petioles terete, dark green, matte, faintly striate; blades thinly coriaceous, semiglossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib flattened and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and darker below; primary lateral veins sunken and concolorous above, narrowly convex and darker below; minor veins visible; inflorescence 1 per axil; peduncle pale green, coarsely short-lineate toward apex; spathe dark green; blade medium green, glossy on both blade and tube; tube glossy and purplish violet within; female spadix yellow-cream, post-anthesis. |
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 |
