Anthurium, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 139.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 145.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 146.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 148.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 144.jpg
Anthurium, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 141.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 143.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 142.jpg
Anthurium, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 140.jpg
Anthurium atropurpureum, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 147.jpg
Anthurium, Croat98715--Ecuador. Prov. Zamora Ch. C. del Condor. Las Orquideas. 16 Sep 07. 138.jpg
Native to Bolivia, Brazil North, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Zamora Chinchipe, Nangaritza (Nangaritza Canton)
-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
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.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
atropurpureum
Authorship
R.E.Schult. & Maguire
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 7.4
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.7
Global rank
#63,196 of 335,497
Top 19%
Extinction probability
11%
