Philodendron sp.
Araceae
| Collection Number | Croat, T 93365 |
| Collectors | Thomas B. Croat, X. Cornejo, C. Davidson, G. Ferry |
| Identified By | |
| 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 4 m; stems to more than 1 m long, 4.2 cm diam., medium green with prominent coarse raised white streaks at the nodes, eventually brownish; cataphylls sharply 2-edged (margins raised), persisting as pale fibers with fragments of pale brown epidermis; petioles obtusely flattened adaxially with prominent striation with marked discontinuances so as to feel finely warty, medium green, weakly glossy, the margins acute near apex; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy to glossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib sunken and slightly paler above; primary lateral veins obtusely sunken and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and conspicuous below; minor veins moderately distinct; inflorescences 3-4 per axil; peduncle 10 x 11 mm midway, pale green, coarsely pale striate, to 9 cm long' spathe pale green, matte, densely short pale-lineate; spathe blade white outside, blade creamy white, tube tinged, weakly pinkish inside; female spadix creamy white post-anthesis; spadix creamy white. |
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 |
