Croat, T 93580

Chlorospatha longipoda (K.Krause) Madison

August 17, 2005

Ecuador

This occurrence of Chlorospatha longipoda (K.Krause) Madison (Croat, T 93580) was collected on August 17, 2005 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 5 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

Chlorospatha plowmanii, Croat93580--Ecuador. Prov. Sucumbio. Jct to La Bonita, E of Lumbaque. 18 Aug 05. 059.jpg

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Record Number

Croat, T 93580

Collection Date

August 17, 2005 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Remarks

Terrestrial; internodes 1.5-2.0 cm long, 1-1.5 cm diam., pale yellow-green, matte with fragments of petiole fibers persisting; petioles dark green, matte, 5 mm diam., bluntly flattened adaxially, sulcate toward apex; blades thin, dark green and matte-subvelvety, paler and matte below; major veins sunken and concolorous above, bluntly acute and darker below; midrib narrowly round-raised and matte, darker below; tertiary veins weakly raised below; inflorescences 2-5 per axil; peduncle 1.5 mm diam., medium green, matte; spathe tube 3.5 mm diam., medium green, matte; blade creamy white; female flowers greenish cream; male spadix creamy white.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Chlorospatha

Specific Epithet

longipoda

Authorship

(K.Krause) Madison

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 11.1

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

EDGE List

Threat status

Predicted threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

3.6

Global rank

#5,600 of 335,497

Top 2%

Extinction probability

36%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →