Anthurium samamaense Croat & Cornejo

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

Terrestrial or hemiepiphytic; internodes dark green, matte, soon grayish, 1.5 cm diam.; cataphylls deciduous; petioles terete, semiglossy, dark green; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy to glossy, bicolorous; major veins narrowly rounded and concolorous above, narrowly raised and paler below; inflorescence erect; peduncle pale green; spathe whitish; spadix dark violet-purple, matte, 6 mm diam.