Croat, T 98716

Anthurium nangaritense Croat

September 15, 2007

Ecuador

This occurrence of Anthurium nangaritense Croat (Croat, T 98716) was collected on September 15, 2007 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 16 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

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Record Number

Croat, T 98716

Collection Date

September 15, 2007 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry

Remarks

Terrestrial; internodes short, 1.5 cm diam., cataphylls persisting in a pale yellow-brown network of fibers, these flaring, not tightly appressed; petioles 21-24 cm long, 4 mm diam., medium green, semiglossy, terete; blades 30-40 cm long, 7-8 cm wide, subcoriaceous, dark green matte-subvelvety above; moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib narrowly rounded and slightly paler above, narrowly rounded and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins 7-8 per side, etched above, weakly raised and concolorous below, about as prominent as the collective veins; inflorescence erect; peduncle pale green, 3 mm diam.; spathe medium green, reflexed, broken off; spadix dark purple-violet, 7.4 cm long, 4 mm diam., weakly glossy with pistils weakly protruding, purple-violet.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Anthurium

Specific Epithet

nangaritense

Authorship

Croat

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Lower

ED 6.5

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

Borderline

Threat status

Predicted threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

2.3

Global rank

#12,024 of 335,497

Top 4%

Extinction probability

43%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →