Philodendron Schott

Location

Location Remarks

Quebrada Piñi Piñi. Bosque secundario en una trocha de extracción de madera.

Collectors

Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Jim Farfán Vargas, Efraín Suclli, Antonio Peña Cruz

Notes

Hierba; espádice y espata verde.

Location

Location Remarks

Valley of Río Waiwaime, near its mouth at Río Quime, vicinity of Ecuacorrientes mining company headquarters, along road which leads to the copper mine, from headquarters camp to the locked gate.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Xavier Cornejo, Christopher Davidson, Geneviève Ferry

Notes

Appressed-climbing hemiepiphyte; internodes elongated, 1.2 cm diam., yellow-brown; cataphyll fibers pale; petioles terete, dark green, semiglossy; blades semiglossy, moderately bicolorous, subcoriaceous; major veins sunken and concolorous above; midrib narrowly rounded and concolorous below; primary lateral veins narrowly raised below; minor veins moderately obscure; inflorescence one per axil; peduncle medium green, semiglossy, 9 mm diam.; spathe dark green on tube, 2.7 x 3.0 cm, tinged violet-purple in lower 2/3 of tube.

Location

Location Remarks

R.F. Los Santos. Cuenca del Savegre. Vecindario de San Isidro de Dota. Albergue Tinamú. 820 m elev.

Collectors

Barry E. Hammel, Isabel Perez-Hammel, Christopher Davidson

Notes

Epífita en tronco podrido sobre una quebrada.

Location

Location Remarks

Herbario Nacional, Quito

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph

Notes

Hemiepiphyte; internodes dark green, matte, 1.1 cm diam.; petioles sheathed throughout, erect at base, spreading at apex, semiglossy inside, matte outside, shaft sparcely dark-lineate; blades subcoriaceous, matte, bicolorous; midrib and primary lateral veins sunken and concolorous above; midrib narrowly round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins narrowly convex and slightly paler below; inflorescence solitary; spathe pale green, semiglossy outside on tube, creamy white on blade, pale green and glossy inside; female spadix pale yellow-green.

Location

Location Remarks

Vicinity of Emerald Jungle Village

Collectors

Scott Mori

Location

Location Remarks

Cuenca Terraba-Sierpe. Entre Palmar Norte y Ciudad Cortés, camino localmente conocido como Cuesta del Burro que sube a Fila Retinto, 9 km de la entrada. 800-900 m elev.

Collectors

Barry E. Hammel, Isabel Perez-Hammel, Christopher Davidson

Notes

Hemiepífito.

Location

Location Remarks

Dist. Palcazú, Parque Nacional Yanachaga-Chemillen. Estación Biológica Paujil, camino hacia pozo tigre. Bosque primario sobre suelo de arenisca. 850 m elev.

Collectors

Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Antonio Peña Cruz, J. Mateo

Notes

Bosque primario terreno plano undulado. Hemiepífito escandente, espádice pistilada marrón, estaminada crema, espata verde.

Location

Location Remarks

Distrito Kosñipata. Quebrada Piñi Piñi. Bosque secundario en una trocha de extracción de madera.

Collectors

Rodolfo Vásquez Martínez, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph, Jim Farfán Vargas, Efraín Suclli, Antonio Peña Cruz

Notes

Hierba escandente, epífita; espata y espádice verde.

Location

Location Remarks

Valley of Río Waiwaime, near its mouth at Río Quime, vicinity of Ecuacorrientes mining company headquarters, along road which leads to the copper mine, from headquarters camp to the locked gate.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Xavier Cornejo, Christopher Davidson, Geneviève Ferry

Notes

Epiphyte at 4 m; stems to more than 1 m long, 4.2 cm diam., medium green with prominent coarse raised white streaks at the nodes, eventually brownish; cataphylls sharply 2-edged (margins raised), persisting as pale fibers with fragments of pale brown epidermis; petioles obtusely flattened adaxially with prominent striation with marked discontinuances so as to feel finely warty, medium green, weakly glossy, the margins acute near apex; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy to glossy, moderately bicolorous; midrib sunken and slightly paler above; primary lateral veins obtusely sunken and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and conspicuous below; minor veins moderately distinct; inflorescences 3-4 per axil; peduncle 10 x 11 mm midway, pale green, coarsely pale striate, to 9 cm long' spathe pale green, matte, densely short pale-lineate; spathe blade white outside, blade creamy white, tube tinged, weakly pinkish inside; female spadix creamy white post-anthesis; spadix creamy white.

Location

Location Remarks

Parque Nacional Cotopaxi: Laguna de Limpiopungo. Colecciones en y alrededor de la laguna. Páramo. 3863 m elev.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Notes

Terrestrial on steep bank; internodes to 5 cm long, both longitudinally ribbed and transversely fissured, light yellow-brown; petioles terete, medium green, densely pale linate-striate, weakly glossy; blade subcoriaceous, moderately bicolorous, semiglossy above, glossy below; midrib much paler, bluntly raised above, bluntly acute and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins weakly quilted and slightly paler above, narrowly raised and weakly paler below; minor veins fine; inflorescences 2-3 per axil; peduncle pale green, finely striate, semiglossy; spathe medium green on tube, finely whitish on blade outside, semiglossy throughout, whitish in blade and glossy outside, dark maroon and glossy inside tube.