- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
Anthurium ternifolium Croat & Carlsen
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
This species is accepted, and its native range is E. Ecuador.
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Distribution
- Endemic to the eastern slopes of the Andes in Ecuador (Morona- Santiago, Napo, and Pastaza provinces).
- General Description
- Terrestrial or climbing epiphyte; internodes up to 7 cm long, 1.0-1.5 cm diam.; cataphylls drying reddish brown, 4-8 cm long, apex acuminate, decomposing into fibers, persisting at upper nodes. LEAVES erect; petiole (14-)20-34 cm x 3-5 mm, semiterete or Dshaped; geniculum 1.0-1.5 cm x 3-5 mm; blades deeply trilobed to [2.0-]4.0-6.5 cm from the base, subcoriaceous, 13-28 x [12-]16-26 cm, dark green, semiglossy above, slightly paler, matte below, raphides visible on upper surface, base cuneate; central lobe oblong-lanceolate, [8.5-]14.0-26.0 x [3.5-]5.0-10.0 cm, apex acuminate; midrib raised above and below, angled; primary lateral veins 5-7 per side, arcuate-ascending, sunken above, raised below, departing midrib at 30-45°; tertiary veins moderately conspicuous; collective veins arising from one of the lowermost pairs of primary lateral veins, 4-7 mm from the margin, sunken above, raised below; lateral lobes falcate [spreading], 35-45° [70-90°] from central lobe, 14-22 x 4.0-8.5 cm, apex narrowly rounded, inner margin straight to weakly concave, outer margin convex; basal veins 3-5 pairs, the first free, the rest joined for 2.5-4.0 cm; posterior ribs straight to weakly arcuate, 55-65° from midrib, naked for 1-3 cm. INFLORESCENCE erect; peduncle 20-35 cm x 2-5 mm, equal or longer than petiole; spathe green, lanceolate, reflexed, 4-8 x 0.6-1.0 cm, apex acuminate, acumen 3-5 mm long, base obtuse, clasping; spadix sessile, green, cylindric to narrowly tapered, (3-)5-10(-14) cm long, 4-5 mm diam. at base, ca. 3 mm diam. at apex; 3-4 flowers per principal spiral, rhombic, 3.0-3.5 x 2.0-2.5 mm, sides sigmoid; tepals semiglossy, lateral tepals ca. 1.5 mm wide, inner margin straight to weakly rounded, then recurved, outer margin angled; stamens not exserted; anthers ca. 3.5 x 0.5 mm, thecae elliptic, slightly divaricate; pistils emergent just at tepal level; stigma slit-like, ca. 0.5 mm across. INFRUCTESCENCE green, 7-14 x 0.7-1.5 cm; fruits green, ovate, ca. 5 x 3-4 mm.
- Habitat
- Premontane moist forests, premontane rain forests, and premontane wet forests.
Distribution
Other Data
Anthurium ternifolium Croat & Carlsen appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Novon 14: 411 (2004)
Accepted by
- Carlsen, M.M. & Croat, T.B. (2007). Taxonomic revision of Anthurium section Semaeophllium Schott (Araceae) Harvard Papers in Botany 12: 173-234.
Literature
CATE Araceae
- Carlsen, M.M. & Croat, T.B. 2007. Taxonomic Revision of Anthurium section Semaeophyllium Schott (Araceae) Harvard Papers in Botany. 12 (1): 173234
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/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0