Anthurium rivulare Sodiro

Location

Location Remarks

Along road from Guayacan to Pucayacú, Departing main Quevedo-Latacunga Hwy. (23.2 km W of Cotopaxi-Los Ríos border 0.8 km N of Guayacan, 8.4 km S of Guasaganda.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Notes

Terrestrial, on steep bank; internodes short, 1.0-1.5 cm diam.; cataphylls mostly deciduous; petioles terete, medium green, semiglossy, weakly sulcate; blades thinly coriaceous, dark green and weakly glossy above, paler and semiglossy below; midrib sunken and concolorous above, raised in valleys on older blades, concolorous above, narrowly round-raised and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and paler below; spathe green, tinged purple; spadix dark purple, semiglossy; berries dark purple-violet at apex, red at base.