Anthurium mindense Sodiro belongs to the Araceae family. Flora of the World contains 1 recorded occurrence of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.
Anthurium mindense, Croat94654--Ecuador. Pichincha. Reserva Bellavista. 14 Feb 05. 025.jpg
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
mindense
Authorship
Sodiro
Source
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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%
Location
Ecuador, Carchi
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.
