Stenospermation zeacarpium Madison

Location

Location Remarks

Along road from Baeza to Lago Agrio, 10 km SE of Manuel Galindo.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson

Notes

Terrestrial on steep rocky area; internodes 1-2 cm long, medium to dark green, moderately glossy, 1.5 cm diam.; petioles erect-spreading, sheathed 2/3 to nearly throughout, mostly 1.5-2.0 cm from base of blade, sheath erect-incurled, rounded at apex, free part acutely sulcate; blades moderately coriaceous, dark green and matte-subvelvety above, moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib deeply sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins obscure on both surfaces; inflorescence cernuous, 4 mm, medium green, semiglossy; spathe brown, persisting on spadix, loosely fitting and seemingly unopened; spadix creamy white to faintly greenish, 6.2 cm long, 1.2 cm diam., narrowly rounded at apex.

Location

Location Remarks

Cordillera del Cóndor, "Area de Conservación Los Tepuyes". Along banks of the Río Nangaritza, in the sandstone-walled canyon between Miazi and Shaime. Dense wet forest and sandstone rock outcrops. 890 m elev.

Collectors

Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry

Notes

Epiphyte; internodes short, 7 mm diam., darkly green, weakly glossy; petioles sheathed throughout, sheath incurled; geniculum narrowly sulcate; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and weakly glossy above above, pale and glossy below; midrib more or less etched and concolorous above, narrowly rounded and paler below; primary lateral veins scarcely visible on either surface; inflorescence cernuous; spadix creamy white, 5.3 cm long, 13.5 mm diam., bluntly beaked at apex; spathe brown persisting.