This occurrence of Araceae Anthurium umbricola Engl. (Croat, T 94399) was collected on 2/13/2005 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 11 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.
Anthurium umbricola, Croat94399--Ecuador. Prov. Pichincha. Reserva Bellavista. 14 Feb 05. 004.jpg
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
umbricola
Authorship
Engl.
Record Number
Croat, T 94399
Collection Date
2/13/2005
Remarks
Terrestrial; common; less than 50 cm tall; internodes short, 1.5 cm diam.; cataphylls 6 cm long, soon only brown fibers; petioles 10-12 cm long, 6 mm thick, 4 mm wide, medium green, weakly glossy, sharply and rather deeply sulcate adaxially, acutely 1-ribbed abaxially; geniculum 1 cm long, slightly darker; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and matte-subvelvety above, much paler and weakly glossy below, 27 x 14 cm, midrib narrowly raised and pler above, thick, acute and paler below; primary lateral veins quilted and etched, concolorous above, darker and narrowly raised below; spathe green, spreading; spadix faintly yellow.
