Taxon

Anthurium atropurpureum R.E. Schult. & Maguire

Anthurium atropurpureum R.E. Schult. & Maguire belongs to the Araceae family. Flora of the World contains 1 recorded occurrence of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.

Anthurium, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 139.jpg

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Occurrences

Croat, T 98715

9/15/2007

Location

Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, Nangaritza

-4.313333, -78.661389

Location Remarks

Cordillera del Cóndor, "Area de Conservación Los Tepuyes". Along banks of the Río Nangaritza, in the sandstone-walled canyon between Miazi and Shaime. Dense wet forest and sandstone rock outcrops. 890 m elev.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry

Notes

Terrestrial; internodes short, 3 cm diam.; cataphylls dark brown, persisting semi-intact at base, lanceolate, weakly curved; petioles obtusely V-sulcate, medium green, weakly glossy, 10 mm thick, 11 mm wide; geniculum purplish, 2.2 cm long, 11 mm thick, 12.5 mm wide, broadly and more or less sharply sulcate; blades coriaceous semiglossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib obtusely angular and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and paler below; primary lateral veins narrowly rounded in valleys, concolorous above, narrowly rounded and concolorous below; tertiary veins etched and concolorous above; inflorescence erect; peduncle 6 mm diam., yellowish; spathe reflexed and curled, heavily tinged violet-purple; spadix dark violet-purple, matte, 13.5 cm long, 8 mm diam.

Classification

Family

Araceae

Genus

Anthurium

Specific Epithet

atropurpureum

Authorship

R.E. Schult. & Maguire

Croat, T 98715

9/15/2007

Location

Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, Nangaritza

-4.313333, -78.661389

Location Remarks

Cordillera del Cóndor, "Area de Conservación Los Tepuyes". Along banks of the Río Nangaritza, in the sandstone-walled canyon between Miazi and Shaime. Dense wet forest and sandstone rock outcrops. 890 m elev.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry

Notes

Terrestrial; internodes short, 3 cm diam.; cataphylls dark brown, persisting semi-intact at base, lanceolate, weakly curved; petioles obtusely V-sulcate, medium green, weakly glossy, 10 mm thick, 11 mm wide; geniculum purplish, 2.2 cm long, 11 mm thick, 12.5 mm wide, broadly and more or less sharply sulcate; blades coriaceous semiglossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib obtusely angular and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and paler below; primary lateral veins narrowly rounded in valleys, concolorous above, narrowly rounded and concolorous below; tertiary veins etched and concolorous above; inflorescence erect; peduncle 6 mm diam., yellowish; spathe reflexed and curled, heavily tinged violet-purple; spadix dark violet-purple, matte, 13.5 cm long, 8 mm diam.