Taxon Details: Anthurium burgeri Croat & R.Baker
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Family:
Araceae (Magnoliophyta)
Araceae (Magnoliophyta)
Scientific Name:
Anthurium burgeri Croat & R.Baker
Anthurium burgeri Croat & R.Baker
Primary Citation:
Brenesia 16(Suppl.): 30. 1979
Brenesia 16(Suppl.): 30. 1979
Accepted Name:
This name is currently accepted.
This name is currently accepted.
Description:
Author : Tom Croat
Description: Epiphyte or terrestrial on steep banks; stem short or long, 1-1.3 cm diam.; roots few, directed downward; cataphylls moderately thin, 6-14 cm long, blunt to acuminate at apex, drying brown (B & K Red-yellow 4/10), remaining intact, subsequently deciduous. Leaves usually held ± erect to spreading; petioles 15-20 cm long, 4-6 mm diam. midway, terete; geniculum (0.5)1.5-2 cm long, weakly flattened adaxially; blades ob-long-oblanceolate, moderately thick (drying somewhat reddish-brown or gray with purplish splotches), gradually acuminate at apex, narrowly cuneate at base, 36-48 cm long, 6.8-8 cm wide, broadest at orjust above the middle; upper surface glossy to semiglossy or matte, lower surface semiglossy; midrib prominently raised above and below, broad at the base, becoming acute and narrow, then diminished and sunken at apex above, obtusely angled, sometimes tinged reddish near the base below; primary lateral veins 10-20 per side, departing midrib at ca. 60° angle, ± straight to the collective vein, flat and somewhat obscure above, raised below; collective vein arising from near the base, more conspicuous than the primary lateral veins, 2-9 mm from margin, weakly sunken above, prominulous below. Inflorescence spreading, as long as or longer than the leaves; peduncle 40-53 cm long, to 4 mm diam., terete, longer than petioles; spathe moderately thin, light green sometimes tinged purple at margins (B & K Yellow-green 7/10) oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6.5-9 cm long, 1.3-2.3 cm diam., broadest near the base, acuminate-cuspidate at apex, rounded to weakly cordate and slightly clasping at base, the margins sometimes joining petiole at slightly different levels; spadix sessile, greenish-brown to purplish-brown (B & K Yellow 6/7.5), 9-12.2 cm long, 5-7 mm diam. at base, to 3 mm diam. at apex; flowers rhombic to weakly 4-lobed, 2-3 mm wide in both directions, the sides straight to weakly sigmoid; 5-9 flowers visible in either spiral; lepals weakly glossy to matte, pale yellow-green with purplish inner edges, pale punctate, with a few scattered droplets, lateral tcpals 1-1.3 mm wide, the inner margin broadly convex to almost straight; pistils weakly emergent, greenish; stigma cllipsoid-circular, ca. 5 mm long, brushlikc and exscrted, dark violet-purple, with a conspicuous droplet appearing briefly, well before first anthers emerge, dry and dark when anthers emerge; stamens emerging promptly from near the middle of the spadix or from the base, held ca. 1 mm above the tepals at anthesis, the filament ca. 3 times longer than the anthers, soon retracting the anther to the level of the tepals; anthers yellow-brown, 0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide, not contiguous; thecae weakly divaricate, oblong-elliptic: pollen orange (B & K Yellow 8/2.5), drying tan to whitish, quickly disappearing. Infructescence pendulous-spreading; spadix ca. 12 cm long, ca. 1.9 cm diam., bearing berries in the basal half only; berries narrowly ovate, 6-6.7 mm long, 3-3.4 mm wide, acute to narrowly rounded at apex, red-orange (B & K Yellow-red 5/2.5); pericarp red-orange; mesocarp gelatinous, pale orange, with numerous raphide cells; seeds 1 or 2, elliptic, pale yellow, sometimes weakly flattened, 3.2-3.5 mm long, 2-2.1 mm wide, 1.2-2 mm thick, surrounded by a sticky amber envelope.
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Distribution: Endemic to Costa Rica from 950 to 1150 m.
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Taxonomic notes: Anthurium burgeri can be distinguished by its oblong-oblanceolate leaf blades with obscure primary lateral veins, and more or less straight, weakly depressed collective veins arising from near the base. The midrib on the lower surface is sometimes tinged reddish and the cataphylls turn brown and remain intact. The inflorescence is equal to or longer than the leaves and the spadix is greenish to purplish-brown with dark violet-purple stigmas. It does not seem to be closely related to any other species in Central America. The sectional placement of A. burgeri is as yet uncertain but is probably best placed in section Xialophyllium despite the fact that it may sometimes have short stems.
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Etymology: The epithet honours William C. Burger, editor of Flora Costaricensis.
Author : Tom Croat
Description: Epiphyte or terrestrial on steep banks; stem short or long, 1-1.3 cm diam.; roots few, directed downward; cataphylls moderately thin, 6-14 cm long, blunt to acuminate at apex, drying brown (B & K Red-yellow 4/10), remaining intact, subsequently deciduous. Leaves usually held ± erect to spreading; petioles 15-20 cm long, 4-6 mm diam. midway, terete; geniculum (0.5)1.5-2 cm long, weakly flattened adaxially; blades ob-long-oblanceolate, moderately thick (drying somewhat reddish-brown or gray with purplish splotches), gradually acuminate at apex, narrowly cuneate at base, 36-48 cm long, 6.8-8 cm wide, broadest at orjust above the middle; upper surface glossy to semiglossy or matte, lower surface semiglossy; midrib prominently raised above and below, broad at the base, becoming acute and narrow, then diminished and sunken at apex above, obtusely angled, sometimes tinged reddish near the base below; primary lateral veins 10-20 per side, departing midrib at ca. 60° angle, ± straight to the collective vein, flat and somewhat obscure above, raised below; collective vein arising from near the base, more conspicuous than the primary lateral veins, 2-9 mm from margin, weakly sunken above, prominulous below. Inflorescence spreading, as long as or longer than the leaves; peduncle 40-53 cm long, to 4 mm diam., terete, longer than petioles; spathe moderately thin, light green sometimes tinged purple at margins (B & K Yellow-green 7/10) oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 6.5-9 cm long, 1.3-2.3 cm diam., broadest near the base, acuminate-cuspidate at apex, rounded to weakly cordate and slightly clasping at base, the margins sometimes joining petiole at slightly different levels; spadix sessile, greenish-brown to purplish-brown (B & K Yellow 6/7.5), 9-12.2 cm long, 5-7 mm diam. at base, to 3 mm diam. at apex; flowers rhombic to weakly 4-lobed, 2-3 mm wide in both directions, the sides straight to weakly sigmoid; 5-9 flowers visible in either spiral; lepals weakly glossy to matte, pale yellow-green with purplish inner edges, pale punctate, with a few scattered droplets, lateral tcpals 1-1.3 mm wide, the inner margin broadly convex to almost straight; pistils weakly emergent, greenish; stigma cllipsoid-circular, ca. 5 mm long, brushlikc and exscrted, dark violet-purple, with a conspicuous droplet appearing briefly, well before first anthers emerge, dry and dark when anthers emerge; stamens emerging promptly from near the middle of the spadix or from the base, held ca. 1 mm above the tepals at anthesis, the filament ca. 3 times longer than the anthers, soon retracting the anther to the level of the tepals; anthers yellow-brown, 0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide, not contiguous; thecae weakly divaricate, oblong-elliptic: pollen orange (B & K Yellow 8/2.5), drying tan to whitish, quickly disappearing. Infructescence pendulous-spreading; spadix ca. 12 cm long, ca. 1.9 cm diam., bearing berries in the basal half only; berries narrowly ovate, 6-6.7 mm long, 3-3.4 mm wide, acute to narrowly rounded at apex, red-orange (B & K Yellow-red 5/2.5); pericarp red-orange; mesocarp gelatinous, pale orange, with numerous raphide cells; seeds 1 or 2, elliptic, pale yellow, sometimes weakly flattened, 3.2-3.5 mm long, 2-2.1 mm wide, 1.2-2 mm thick, surrounded by a sticky amber envelope.
Common names:
Distribution: Endemic to Costa Rica from 950 to 1150 m.
Ecology:
Phenology:
Pollination:
Dispersal:
Taxonomic notes: Anthurium burgeri can be distinguished by its oblong-oblanceolate leaf blades with obscure primary lateral veins, and more or less straight, weakly depressed collective veins arising from near the base. The midrib on the lower surface is sometimes tinged reddish and the cataphylls turn brown and remain intact. The inflorescence is equal to or longer than the leaves and the spadix is greenish to purplish-brown with dark violet-purple stigmas. It does not seem to be closely related to any other species in Central America. The sectional placement of A. burgeri is as yet uncertain but is probably best placed in section Xialophyllium despite the fact that it may sometimes have short stems.
Conservation:
Uses:
Etymology: The epithet honours William C. Burger, editor of Flora Costaricensis.