Philodendron tenue, Croat93377--Ecuador. Prov. Los Rios. Cerro Samama, E of Pita. 14 Aug 04. 001.jpg
Native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá, Venezuela (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Los Rios, Babahoyo (El Pangui Canton)
-3.566389, -78.441389
Location Remarks
Valley of Río Waiwaime, near its mouth at Río Quime, vicinity of Ecuacorrientes mining company headquarters, along road which leads to the copper mine, from headquarters camp to the locked gate.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, Xavier Cornejo, Christopher Davidson, Geneviève Ferry
Notes
Epiphyte at 2 m tall; internodes to 4 cm long, 1 cm diam.; cataphyll fibers pale; petioles terete, dark green, matte, faintly striate; blades thinly coriaceous, semiglossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib flattened and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and darker below; primary lateral veins sunken and concolorous above, narrowly convex and darker below; minor veins visible; inflorescence 1 per axil; peduncle pale green, coarsely short-lineate toward apex; spathe dark green; blade medium green, glossy on both blade and tube; tube glossy and purplish violet within; female spadix yellow-cream, post-anthesis.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Philodendron
Specific Epithet
tenue
Authorship
K.Koch & Augustin
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
High
ED 41.9
Sits on a long, isolated branch of the plant tree of life, with relatively few close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
4.1
Global rank
#4,504 of 335,497
Top 2%
Extinction probability
11%
