Croat, T 93521

Stenospermation zeacarpium Madison

August 17, 2004

Ecuador

This occurrence of Stenospermation zeacarpium Madison (Croat, T 93521) was collected on August 17, 2004 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 3 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

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Record Number

Croat, T 93521

Collection Date

August 17, 2004 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Remarks

Terrestrial on steep rocky area; internodes 1-2 cm long, medium to dark green, moderately glossy, 1.5 cm diam.; petioles erect-spreading, sheathed 2/3 to nearly throughout, mostly 1.5-2.0 cm from base of blade, sheath erect-incurled, rounded at apex, free part acutely sulcate; blades moderately coriaceous, dark green and matte-subvelvety above, moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib deeply sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins obscure on both surfaces; inflorescence cernuous, 4 mm, medium green, semiglossy; spathe brown, persisting on spadix, loosely fitting and seemingly unopened; spadix creamy white to faintly greenish, 6.2 cm long, 1.2 cm diam., narrowly rounded at apex.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Stenospermation

Specific Epithet

zeacarpium

Authorship

Madison

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 14.8

Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

1.4

Global rank

#26,240 of 335,497

Top 8%

Extinction probability

11%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →