Anthurium bushii Croat

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

Habitat

Premontane moist forest life zone.

Distribution

Known only from the type collection from the Province of Morona-Santiago in Ecuador, where it was collected in the Serrania de Cutucu.

Conservation

Endangered (EN) Criteria: B1ab(iii)

General Description

Description based on dried material only. Epiphytic; stem and cataphylls unknown. LEAVES; petioles 8 cm long, 7 mm diam., D-shaped, with medial rib and the margins sharply raised adaxially, probably rounded abaxially; geniculum conspicuously thicker and somewhat darker than petiole, 0.7 cm long; blades subcoriaceous, oblanceolate, narrowly acute at apex, very long-attenuate at base, ca. 100 cm long, 18.5 cm wide, broadest above the middle, the margins moderately undulate; both surfaces matte, grayish green, slightly paler below; midrib ± acutely raised above, slightly paler than surface, broadly convexly raised and brownish below; primary lateral veins ca. 21 per side, departing midrib at 40-50° angle, usually straight, sometimes weakly arcuate to the margin, conspicuously raised above and below, the same color as the midrib; tertiary veins weakly visible, flat to weakly raised above and below; collective vein absent. INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 36 cm long, ca. 2 mm diam., 4.5 x as long as petiole, drying the same color as midrib, terete; spathe spreading-ascending, subcoriaceous, purple, drying brown, lanceolate, 8 cm long, ca. 1.3 cm wide, acuminate at apex (the acumen inrolled, 13 mm long), narrowly acute at base; spadix drying brownish, oblong-cylindroid, slightly curved, 12 cm long, ca. 4 mm diam. midway; flowers square to rhombic, ca. 4-7 flowers visible in principal spiral tepals ± smooth; lateral tepals 4 mm wide, the inner margins broadly convex, the outer margins 2-sided; anthers 0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; thecae slightly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE not seen.