Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (81).jpg
Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (83).jpg
Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (84).jpg
Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (80).jpg
Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (82).jpg
Native to Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Panamá (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Latacunga (Mejía Canton)
-0.610278, -78.477167
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; internodes short, 1.5-2.0 cm diam., greenish brown, matte, transversely fissured; cataphyll fibers persisting with fragments of brown epidermis; petioles terete, dark green and glossy, 5 mm diam.; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and semiglossy, paler and semiglossy below; midrib narrowly acute and concolorous above, round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins deeply sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and paler below; spathe green, reflexed; spadix dark purple-violet; berries dark violet-purple to red-purple at base, dark violet-purple at apex.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
cuspidatum
Authorship
Mast.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 8.3
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
0.7
Global rank
#61,282 of 335,497
Top 19%
Extinction probability
10%
