Family
Araceae
Genus
Rhodospatha
2/10/2005
Location
Ecuador, Pichincha
0.021944, -78.746944
Location Remarks
Along road between Tandayapa and Mindo, vicinity of Bellavisata Tourist Lodge, 6.5 km N of Tandayapa on old road from Nono to Mindo. 2270 m elev.
Collectors
No collectors specified
3/24/2006
Location
Ecuador, Pichincha
0.021944, -78.746944
Location Remarks
Along road between Tandayapa and Mindo, vicinity of Bellavisata Tourist Lodge, 6.5 km N of Tandayapa on old road from Nono to Mindo. 2270 m elev.
Collectors
Thomas B. Croat, Christopher Davidson, Sharon Christoph
Notes
Epiphyte; internodes 1-4 cm long, 3.6 cm diam., medium green, smooth, semiglossy soon light brown, irregularly transverse-fissured; petioles dark green, weakly glossy to matte, sheathed to geniculum, 42-47 cm long, sharply and broadly sulcate with flaring wings on geniculum; sheath persisting semi-intact and loosening; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and semiglossy above, moderately paler and matte below; midrib narrowly sunken and marginally discolored, medium green above, narrowly raised, slightly paler and matte below; primary lateral veins etched-sunked above, more than 40 per side, narrowly raised and slightly paler below, scarcely more prominent than interprimary veins; minor veins darker than surface; inflorescences 1 per axil; spathe 29 cm long, narrowly attenuated at apex, glossy and medium green outside, slightly pre-anthesis, glossy both sides, slightly paler inside, 13.3 cm wide flattened; spadix creamy white, 22 cm long, 13.5 cm at base 1.5 cm midway, 7 mm diam. 1 cm from tip; pistils faintly purplish, raised, medium green post-anthesis.
10/28/2007
Location
Peru, Cusco, Paucartambo (Kosnipata)
-12.876389, -71.408889
Location Remarks
Quebrada Piñi Piñi. Bosque secundario en una trocha de extracción de madera.
Collectors
Rodolfo Vásquez, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Jim Farfán, Efraín Suclli, A. Peña Cruz
Notes
Hierba hemiepífita; espádice crema; espata blanca.
