Chlorospatha plowmanii, Croat93580--Ecuador. Prov. Sucumbio. Jct to La Bonita, E of Lumbaque. 18 Aug 05. 059.jpg
Endemic to Ecuador (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Sucumbios (Ipiales)
0.399167, -77.346944
Location Remarks
Above road from Lumbaqui to La Bonita, departing main Baeza-Lago Agrio road, just E of Río Aguarico bridge E of Lumbaqui, 5.8 km NW of jct. with main highway.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson
Notes
Terrestrial; internodes 1.5-2.0 cm long, 1-1.5 cm diam., pale yellow-green, matte with fragments of petiole fibers persisting; petioles dark green, matte, 5 mm diam., bluntly flattened adaxially, sulcate toward apex; blades thin, dark green and matte-subvelvety, paler and matte below; major veins sunken and concolorous above, bluntly acute and darker below; midrib narrowly round-raised and matte, darker below; tertiary veins weakly raised below; inflorescences 2-5 per axil; peduncle 1.5 mm diam., medium green, matte; spathe tube 3.5 mm diam., medium green, matte; blade creamy white; female flowers greenish cream; male spadix creamy white.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Chlorospatha
Specific Epithet
longipoda
Authorship
(K.Krause) Madison
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 11.1
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
3.6
Global rank
#5,600 of 335,497
Top 2%
Extinction probability
36%
