Anthurium pulverulentum, Croat93429--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Guayacan- Pucayacu rd. 14 Aug 04. 166.jpg
Native to Colombia, Ecuador (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Cotopaxi (La Maná Canton)
-0.868889, -79.159167
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 to 10 cm long, 2.1-3.2 cm diam.; cataphylls reddish, persisting with pale brown fibers and large fragments of dark brown epidermis, to 30 cm long; petioles subterete, medium green, matte, obtusely and shallowly sulcate; blades thinly coriaceous, dark green and matte-subvelvety above, moderately paler and matte below; midrib acute and concolorous above, narrowly rounded, paler and matte below; primary lateral veins etched-sunken and conspicuous above, bluntly acute below; inflorescence erect; spathe dark green, inrolled, reflexed-spreading; spadix bluish green, glaucous, 12 mm diam.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
pulverulentum
Authorship
Sodiro
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 7.3
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
#66,263 of 335,497
Top 20%
Extinction probability
11%
