8/14/2004
Location
Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Latacunga
-0.610278, -78.477167
Location Remarks
Parque Nacional Cotopaxi: Laguna de Limpiopungo. Colecciones en y alrededor de la laguna. Páramo. 3863 m elev.
Collectors
Thomas 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.
