- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
Anthurium krukovii Croat
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
This species is accepted, and its native range is Brazil (Amazonas).
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Habitat
- Probably in a tropical moist forest life zone.
- General Description
- Description based on dried material only. Terrestrial or epiphytic; stem 5-10 mm diam.; roots dense, numerous, spreading, pubescent, relatively short, bluntly pointed, 1-5 mm diam.; cataphylls lanceolate, thin, 4-8 cm long, acute at apex, brown, persisting intact, eventually deciduous. LEAVES with petioles 19.5-38 cm long, ca. 3-7 mm diam., subterete, narrowly sulcate with rounded margins adaxially, rounded abaxially; geniculum darker than petiole, 0.6-1.5 cm long; blades subcoriaceous, ovate-elliptic, long-acuminate at apex, acute to semirounded at base, then narrowing abruptly to the geniculum (making geniculum seem remote from base by 4-11 cm), 26-40 cm long, 11-18 cm wide, broadest below or near the middle, the margins concave toward the base, apparently shallowly undulate; surface semiglossy, green to yellowish green; midrib narrowly convex above, sharply acute below; primary lateral veins 7-10 per side, departing midrib at 40-65° angle, ± straight, raised above and below, more sharply so below; tertiary veins weakly raised; reticulate veins obscure above, weakly raised below; collective vein arising from near the base to about the middle of the blade, equally as prominent as primary lateral veins, 5-15 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES with peduncle 31-57.5 cm long, ca. 3-4 mm diam., equaling or to 1.8 x longer than petiole, light to olive-green, terete; spathe recurled, membranous, pale reddish green, oblong-lanceolate, to 8 cm long, ca. 0.7 cm wide, broadest near the base, narrowly acute at apex, acute and decurrent at base; stipe 1.5-3.5 cm long in front, (0)8-17 mm long in back; spadix dark red to brown, long-tapered, usually long-stipitate, 12- 15 cm long, 4-5 mm diam. near base, ca. 2 mm diam. near apex; flowers ± square or rhombic when dried, 1.2-1.8 mm in both directions, the sides straight to smoothly sigmoid; 5-7 flowers visible in principal spiral, 8-9 in alternate spiral; lateral tepals 0.9-1.2 mm wide, the inner margins straight to broadly rounded, the outer margins 2-sided; pistils emergent, not raised; stigma ellipsoid, 0.5-0.7 mm long; anthers 0.2-0.3 mm long, 0.4-0.5 mm wide, inclined over pistil; thecae ovoid, slightly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE with spathe deciduous; spadix ca. 1 cm diam.; berries violet, (rehydrated) globose to oblong-ovoid, rounded at apex, 3.5-3.7 mm long, 2.6-3.5 mm diam.; pericarp somewhat thickened with moderately numerous pale raphide cells; seeds 1 or 2 per berry, brown, oblong-ovoid, somewhat flattened laterally, 2.5-2.8 mm long, 1.8-2 mm diam., 1.2-1.4 mm thick.
- Distribution
- Known from a few collections made in the central, northern and southwestern parts of Amazonas, Brazil.
Distribution
Other Data
Anthurium krukovii Croat appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 78: 666 (1991)
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.
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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