Croat, T 98778

Philodendron attenuatum Croat

September 16, 2007

Ecuador

This occurrence of Philodendron attenuatum Croat (Croat, T 98778) was collected on September 16, 2007 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 9 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

Philodendron attenuatum, Croat98778--Ecuador. Z.C. Margin of Rio Nangaritza. 17 Sep 07. 332.jpg

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Record Number

Croat, T 98778

Collection Date

September 16, 2007 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry

Remarks

Epiphyte; cataphylls unribbed, medium-green, finely speckled, deciduous; internodes 2-4 cm long, 2.0-2.5 cm diam, 1-1.2 cm diam., medium-green soon gray-brown; petioles terete, spongy, densely short, dark-lineate, semiglossy; blades subcoriaceous, moderately glossy and bicolorous; midrib flattened-convex and concolorous above, broadly rounded and paler below; primary lateral veins obtusely quilted, thickly convex and paler below; minor veins fine, moderately distinct; inflorescences 1-3 per axil; spathe green tinged violet-purple on tube outside, dark violet-purple on tube inside.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Philodendron

Specific Epithet

attenuatum

Authorship

Croat

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

High

ED 27.5

Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.

Threat status

Predicted not threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

2.5

Global rank

#10,310 of 335,497

Top 4%

Extinction probability

11%