Anthurium sect. Digitinervium Sodiro

• Region

  South America

• Country

  Ecuador

• State/Province

  Pastaza

• Locality

  Along road from Mera to Río Anzu, 6 km N of Mera.

• Elevation

  Alt. 1370 m. (4495 ft.)

• Coordinates

  -0.4325, -78.09

• Location Notes

  [South America]

• Distribution

  Map all specimens of this taxon

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(Thomas B. Croat,	fi?5)
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ARACEAE
Anthur ium sect. Pigitinervium
Pastaza
Along road from Mera to Rio Anzu, 6
Km N of Mera.
00°E5157"S 078°051E4-"W	1370 m
Terrestrial on steep bank; internodes
1-3 cm long, medium green, semiglossy;
cataphylls persistent, semi-intact
above, more fibrous and dark brown
below; petioles sharply flat-sulcate
with E ribs between edges, medium
green, weakly glossy, heavily
discolored with purple; blades
coriaceous, semiglossy, conspicuously
Thomas B. Croat,
Lynn Hannon & Marck Menke 886E5
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN HERBARIUM (MO)
bicolorous; basal veins conspicuously
sunken; midrib narrowly rounded and
slightly paler above, bluntly acute
and sometimes violet-purple below;
primary lateral veins etched to
etched—sun ken and concolorous above,
eakly raised and darker below;
inflorescence erect, about as long as
petioles; spathe medium green,
spreading, semiglossy, sometimes
twisted; spadix stipitate, E-6 mm,
pale green when immature, dark green
to yellowish green at maturity, weakly
glossy to matte; infruetescence EE cm
x 3 cm diam.; fruits red, early
emerg ing.
6 May E003
Thomas B. Croat,
Lynn Hannon & Marck Menke 886E5
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN HERBARIUM (MO)
03152137