Anthurium umbricola Engl. belongs to the Araceae family. Flora of the World contains 3 recorded occurrences of this taxon, distributed across 1 country.
Family
Araceae
Genus
Anthurium
Specific Epithet
umbricola
Authorship
Engl.
2/13/2005
Location
Ecuador, Pichincha
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; common; less than 50 cm tall; internodes short, 1.5 cm diam.; cataphylls 6 cm long, soon only brown fibers; petioles 10-12 cm long, 6 mm thick, 4 mm wide, medium green, weakly glossy, sharply and rather deeply sulcate adaxially, acutely 1-ribbed abaxially; geniculum 1 cm long, slightly darker; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and matte-subvelvety above, much paler and weakly glossy below, 27 x 14 cm, midrib narrowly raised and pler above, thick, acute and paler below; primary lateral veins quilted and etched, concolorous above, darker and narrowly raised below; spathe green, spreading; spadix faintly yellow.
8/15/2004
Location
Ecuador, Cotopaxi
-0.868889, -79.159167
Location Remarks
Along road from Guayacan to Pucayacú, Departing main Quevedo-Latacunga Hwy. (23.2 km W of Cotopaxi-Los Ríos border 0.8 km N of Guayacan, 8.4 km S of Guasaganda.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, Christopher Davidson
Notes
Terrestrial on steep bank; internodes to 1 cm long, medium green, semiglossy; cataphylls persisting more or less intact, reddish brown; petioles medium green, semiglossy, deeply sulcate; blades subcoriaceous, dark green, matte above, moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib narrowly raised and slightly paler above, acute and paler below; primary lateral veins etched-sunken and concolorous above, narrowly raised and concolorous below; collective veins equal to primary lateral veins; spathe medium green, spreading; fruits violet, 3-5 mm diam., subglobose, more or less truncate at apex
8/13/2004
Location
Ecuador, Los Rios, Babahoyo
-3.566389, -78.441389
Location Remarks
Valley of Río Waiwaime, near its mouth at Río Quime, vicinity of Ecuacorrientes mining company headquarters, along road which leads to the copper mine, from headquarters camp to the locked gate.
Collectors
Tom B. Croat, X. Cornejo, Christopher Davidson, G. Ferry
Notes
Terrestrial; internodes to 5 cm long, 1.5 cm diam., medium green, semiglossy; cataphylls marcescent, bases of fibers persisting; petioles narrowly and deeply sulcate, medium green and semiglossy; blades thinly coriaceous, dark green and weakly glossy above, moderately paler and semiglossy below; midrib narrowly raised and concolorous above, bluntly acute and slightly darker below; primary lateral veins quilted-sunken and concolorous above; inflorescence erect; spathe medium green, spreading; spadix dark green.