Rhodospatha latifolia Poepp. belongs to the Araceae family. Flora of the World contains 2 recorded occurrences of this taxon, distributed across 2 countries.
Rhodospatha latifolia, AAraujoM1254--Bolivia. Pq. Nac. Madidi. Chalalan. Send. Anta. 30 Nov 04. 295.jpg
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Rhodospatha
Specific Epithet
latifolia
Authorship
Poepp.
Source
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 9.9
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.9
Global rank
#50,139 of 335,497
Top 15%
Extinction probability
10%
Location
Bolivia, La Paz, Franz Tamayo
-14.423056, -67.923889
Location Remarks
Madidi, San Jose-Bala, Chalalan, senderos Anta, Tucan y Wabucuro, Bosque amazonico preandino, planicie con dominancia de Iriartea deltoidea, Socratea exhorriza, Otoba parvifolia, Pachira insignis, Quararibea witti y Celtis schippii. 350 m elev.
Collectors
Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Paola Gismondi, Tatiana B. Miranda
Notes
Epifita creciendo sobre una liana; amentos florales verdes amarillentos.
Location
Ecuador, Napo
-0.096111, -77.816667
Location Remarks
Along road from Baeza to Lago Agrio, 10 km SE of Manuel Galindo.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson
Notes
On rocks or hemiepiphytic; internodes dark green and glossy, 1.5-1.8 cm diam.; petioles sheathed throughout, shaft medium green, sheath margin dark green (both weakly glossy); geniculum sharply sulcate, 5 mm wide, 7 mm thick; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib narrowly sunken and marginally discolored pale above, narrowly rounded and pale below; primary lateral veins sunken-quilted and concolorous above, convex and paler below; spathe green, 14.4 cm long, erect, medium green and weakly glossy outside, pale white-green and glossy inside, 2.8 cm diam. at near anthesis; spadix light pink and smelling of anise at anthesis 10.4 cm long, 1.6 cm diam. midway, 11 mm diam. at base, 9 mm diam. at 1 cm from tip, bluish green post-anthesis.
