Croat, T 93544

Xanthosoma purpureomaculatum Croat & L.P.Hannon

August 17, 2004

Ecuador

This occurrence of Xanthosoma purpureomaculatum Croat & L.P.Hannon (Croat, T 93544) was collected on August 17, 2004 in Ecuador. Flora of the World includes 6 field photographs documenting this occurrence, all of which are displayed here.

Xanthosoma purpureomaculatum, Croat93544--Ecuador. Prov. Napo.47.2 km E of Baeza. 18 Aug 04. 033.jpg

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Record Number

Croat, T 93544

Collection Date

August 17, 2004 · Ecuador

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Remarks

Terrestrial; internodes short, 6 cm diam.; petioles medium green and matte at base, deeply purple-maculate toward middle, solid dark purple on apical 1/2, obtusely flattened adaxially, the colored parts semiglossy; blades thin, dark green and matte and weakly glossy above, moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib deeply sunken and concolorous above, narrowly round-riased, medium green, weakly glossy, dark purple-splotched below; primary lateral veins deeply sunken and concolorous above, round-raised, paler and matte to weakly glossy below; tertiary veins in part sunken above, raised below; inflorescences 2 per axil; peduncle medium green, weakly glossy; spathe 3 cm diam., tube dark green-purple on outer edge of tube, dark purple throughout inside; female spadix pale yellow, 1.2 cm diam. midway, 1.0 cm at apex; male sterile part 1.2 cm diam., cream; fertile male part 1.2 x 2.2 cm wide creamy.

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Alismatales

Family

Araceae

Genus

Xanthosoma

Specific Epithet

purpureomaculatum

Authorship

Croat & L.P.Hannon

Source

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Moderate

ED 12.9

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

Threat status

Predicted threatened

Modelled estimate

EDGE score

2.4

Global rank

#10,754 of 335,497

Top 4%

Extinction probability

44%

Source: Flowering plants EDGE assessment →