Family
Araceae
Genus
Rhodospatha
Specific Epithet
latifolia
Authorship
Poepp.
8/17/2004
Location
Ecuador, Napo
-0.096111, -77.816667
Location Remarks
Along road from Baeza to Lago Agrio, 10 km SE of Manuel Galindo.
Collectors
T. B. Croat, G. Ferry, C. 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.
11/29/2004
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 M., Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Paola Gismondi, Tatiana B. Miranda
Notes
Epifita creciendo sobre una liana; amentos florales verdes amarillentos.
