Anthurium cuspidatum Mast. belongs to the Araceae family. Flora of the World contains 1 recorded occurrence of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.
Anthurium propinquum cf, Croat93458--Ecuador. Prov. Cotopaxi. Centro Sacha Wiwa. Guayacan. 15 Aug 04. (81).jpg
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
cuspidatum
Authorship
Mast.
Source
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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%
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
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.
