Croat, T 93518

Rhodospatha latifolia Poepp.

August 17, 2004

Ecuador

This occurrence of Rhodospatha latifolia Poepp. (Croat, T 93518) was collected on August 17, 2004 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 9 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

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Record Number

Croat, T 93518

Collection Date

August 17, 2004 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Remarks

On rocks or hemiepiphytic; internodes dark green and glossy, 1.5-1.8 cm diam.; petioles sheathed throughout, shaft medium green, sheath margin dark green (both weakly glossy); geniculum sharply sulcate, 5 mm wide, 7 mm thick; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib narrowly sunken and marginally discolored pale above, narrowly rounded and pale below; primary lateral veins sunken-quilted and concolorous above, convex and paler below; spathe green, 14.4 cm long, erect, medium green and weakly glossy outside, pale white-green and glossy inside, 2.8 cm diam. at near anthesis; spadix light pink and smelling of anise at anthesis 10.4 cm long, 1.6 cm diam. midway, 11 mm diam. at base, 9 mm diam. at 1 cm from tip, bluish green post-anthesis.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Rhodospatha

Specific Epithet

latifolia

Authorship

Poepp.

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 9.9

Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

0.9

Global rank

#50,139 of 335,497

Top 15%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →