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Endemic to Brazil Southeast (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
Ecuador, Pichincha (Quito)
0.021944, -78.746944
Location Remarks
Along road between Tandayapa and Mindo, vicinity of Bellavisata Tourist Lodge, 6.5 km N of Tandayapa on old road from Nono to Mindo. 2270 m elev.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, Christopher Davidson, Sharon R. Christoph
Notes
Terrestrial; internodes short, 3 cm diam.; petioles 37-55 cm long, 4 mm diam., heavily tinged purple, semiglossy, flattened and narrowly sulcate; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy sulcate; blades subcoriaceous, semiglossy, bicolorous; midrib narrowly rounded and paler above, narrowly round-raised and paler, sharply ridged below; primary lateral veins quilted-sunken and concolorous above, acutely pleated-raised below; tertiary veins in part raised below; inflorescence erect; spathe spreading, 7 cm long, 2.7 cm diam., medium yellow-green, glossier outside, sometimes becoming heavily tinged violet-purple; spadix dark olive-green, glossy; pistils dark violet-purple; mature berries pale yellow-green, tinged violet-purple at apex.
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Alismatales
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
longicuspidatum
Authorship
Engl.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Lower
ED 6.5
Part of a well-represented branch of the plant tree of life, with many close relatives.
Threat status
Modelled estimate
EDGE score
1.7
Global rank
#19,963 of 335,497
Top 6%
Extinction probability
24%
