Location:

Brazil. Acre. Rio Branco Mun. vicinity of Rio Branco; Universidade Federal do Acre; Parque Zoobotânico; vicinity of Herbarium complex; secondary vegetation with remnants of old canopy trees. Alt. 150 m. (492 ft.)

Collector(s):

T. B. Croat 84972 with , 8 Nov 2001

Description:

Terrestrial 40 cm-1.3 m tall; internodes 1-3 cm long, 0.9-1.8 cm diam., dark green and semiglossy, becoming brown, more or less scurfy lower down; petioles 6.5-9.5 cm long, sheathed 3-3.5 cm at base, dark green and matte, densely pale-speckled, markedly unequal at apex, one side acute, the other rounded and free-ending (whitish along the margin of the rounded side), free portion of petiole broadly and obtusely sulcate dark green and matte; blades thinly coriaceous, dark green and semiglossy above, slightly paler and weakly glossy below, 20-24 cm long, 5.5-7 cm wide; midrib weakly flat-raised and concolorus above, narrowly raised and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins 7-8 pair, weakly etched-sunken and concolorous above, narrowly convex and slightly darker below; minor veins weakly distinct below; inflorescences 1-2 per axil; peduncle 4.5 cm long, 5 mm diam., dark green, curved; spathe medium green, weakly glossy to semiglossy, whitish toward apex of blade at anthesis, 14 cm long, tube 1.4 cm diam.; male portion of spadix creamy white protruding forward at 45º angle; pistils 3.2; sterile naked part of spadix 4-5 mm long; male portion of spadix 4.5-4.7 cm long, 9 mm diam.

Identifiers:

GUID: b52fc9e4-d7e2-4821-b497-3700c244f3c8

Map:

Coordinates: (-9.95, -67.87)

Distribution:

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