Anthurium umbricola Engl.

Location

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.

Location

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

Location

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, Xavier Cornejo, Christopher Davidson, Geneviève 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.