Croat, T 93458

Anthurium cuspidatum Mast.

August 14, 2004

Ecuador

This occurrence of Anthurium cuspidatum Mast. (Croat, T 93458) was collected on August 14, 2004 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 5 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (81).jpg

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Record Number

Croat, T 93458

Collection Date

August 14, 2004 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Remarks

Terrestrial; internodes short, 1.5-2.0 cm diam., greenish brown, matte, transversely fissured; cataphyll fibers persisting with fragments of brown epidermis; petioles terete, dark green and glossy, 5 mm diam.; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and semiglossy, paler and semiglossy below; midrib narrowly acute and concolorous above, round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins deeply sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and paler below; spathe green, reflexed; spadix dark purple-violet; berries dark violet-purple to red-purple at base, dark violet-purple at apex.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Anthurium

Specific Epithet

cuspidatum

Authorship

Mast.

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 8.3

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

0.7

Global rank

#61,282 of 335,497

Top 19%

Extinction probability

10%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →