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  1. Family: Araceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Anthurium Schott

      1. Anthurium carneospadix Engl.

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Peru.

    [CATE]

    CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

    Phenology
    January (in flower).
    Distribution
    Subequatorial Andine Province: East of Huacapistana, in the mountains of Yanangu.
    Habitat
    In low, moist, mossy forest.
    General Description
    Stem shortly climbing or forward creeping, internodes short. Cataphylls lanceolate, 15-20 cm long, soon decomposed and fibrous. LEAVES: Petiole more-or-less terete, a little longer than the blade, 40-45 cm long, 4-5 mm thick, geniculum 1.5 cm long. Blade oblong-cordate, 40-45 cm long, posterior lobes semi-reniform, incurving, 3.5 times shorter than the anterior lobe, basal primary lateral veins 6, joined into posterior ribs which are long-denuded in the oblong sinus, upwardly curving near the margin and running out into the margin, basal primary lateral veins 2, the single interlobe vein and one vein of the anterior lobe, or the latter only, joined with the 7-8 parallel primary lateral veins of the midrib into a collective vein distant 5-6 mm from the margin, the secondary lateral veins more slender and distinctly prominent below. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle 15 cm long. Spathe lanceolate, 9-12 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, purplish brown. Spadix with a stipe 1.5-2 cm long, becoming 10 cm long, 8 mm thick. Tepals flesh-coloured, ca. 2 mm long. Stamens broadly linear, 3 mm long. Pistil ovoid, contracted into a style. Stigma capitate. INFRUCTESCENCE unseen.

    Distribution

    Anthurium carneospadix Engl. appears in other Kew resources:

    First published in Pflanzenr., IV, 23B: 194 (1905)

    Accepted by

    • Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

    Sources

    CATE Araceae
    Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0