Croat, T 93291

Philodendron sparreorum Croat

August 9, 2004

Ecuador

This occurrence of Philodendron sparreorum Croat (Croat, T 93291) was collected on August 9, 2004 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 12 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

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Record Number

Croat, T 93291

Collection Date

August 9, 2004 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Remarks

Terrestrial on steep bank; internodes much longer than broad, gray and weakly glossy; petioles terete and weakly glossy, finely ribbed, broadly sulcate toward base, dark green; blades subcoriaceous, moderately glossy and moderately bicolorous; midrib broadly sunken and pale above, narrowly rounded and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins obtusely sunken and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and paler below; inflorescences 5-6 per axil; peduncle pale green; spathe medium green on tube, pale orange on blade outside (eventually red-orange throughout), pale green inside, whitish on blade inside; female spadix pale green.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Philodendron

Specific Epithet

sparreorum

Authorship

Croat

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 21.4

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

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

1.8

Global rank

#18,243 of 335,497

Top 6%

Extinction probability

10%