Anthurium mindense, Croat94654--Ecuador. Pichincha. Reserva Bellavista. 14 Feb 05. 025.jpg
Native to Colombia, Ecuador (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Carchi (Tulcán Canton)
0.802222, -77.929167
Location Remarks
Paramo del Angel, along road from El Chical to Tulcán, 68.1 km E of El Chical, 13.6 km W of Tufiño plaza. 3200 m elev.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Terrestrial; internodes to 15 cm long, 1 cm diam., medium green, semiglossy, becoming olive-green; cataphylls persisting intact; petioles subterete, obtusely flattened, tinged purplish violet; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and weakly glossy above, moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib bluntly acute tinged purplish above, round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and concolorous below; spathe medium green, spreading; spadix dark violet-purple, semiglossy.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
mindense
Authorship
Sodiro
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 8.8
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
#64,213 of 335,497
Top 20%
Extinction probability
10%
