- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
Anthurium barreranum Croat & D.C.Bay
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
This species is accepted, and its native range is Colombia (Valle del Cauca).
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- General Description
- Epiphytic or terrestrial; stem short; internodes to 1 cm long, 5 - 9 mm diam., semiglossy to glossy, smooth, medium green, drying pale tan; roots few per node; cataphylls 3 - 10 cm long, 1-ribbed, medium green, drying medium brown, deciduous. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 20 - 31 cm x 2 - 3 mm (dry), terete, sometimes 1-ribbed adaxially, matte, medium green, drying medium brown; geniculum 8 - 15 mm long, drying darker than petiole; blades subcoriaceous, ovate, abruptly long-acuminate at apex, cordate at abase, 20 - 28 x 9.5 - 11 cm, 2.1 - 2.7 times longer than wide, 0.8 - 1 times as long as petiole, upper surface semiglossy to glossy, medium green, drying glossy and medium brown, lower surface semiglossy and slightly paler, drying glossy and slightly paler; anterior lobe 26 - 18? x 9.5 - 11 cm, 5.1 - 10.2 times longer than posterior lobes; posterior lobes 2.6 - 4 x 2.5 - 5 cm, rounded; sinus 1.5 - 3 cm deep; major veins drying concolorous, barely raised above, darker than surface, round-raised below; midrib narrowly raised, paler above, convex, paler below; primary lateral veins 6 to 7 per side, departing from midrib at a 35° - 45° angle, gradually curving to collective veins, narrowly sunken above, narrowly and acutely raised, paler below; basal veins 3 to 4 per side, free from base; collective veins 3 - 5 mm from blade margin, originating from first basal vein; tertiary veins barely visible above, slightly raised below. INFLORESCENCE erect; peduncle to 15 cm x 1 - 3 mm (dry), terete, medium green, drying brown; spathe to 10 cm long, light green; spadix lost, described as dark purple. INFRUCTESCENCE unknown.
- Habitat
- Occurring in Tropical wet forest transition to Premontane) T-wf/P), in regrowth and primary forests.
- Distribution
- The species is known only from the Bajo Calima region.
According to Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
[CPLC]Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
- Distribution
- Endémica y nativa en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 150 m.; Pacífico.
- Habit
- Hierba, epífita
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
Distribution
Other Data
Anthurium barreranum Croat & D.C.Bay appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Novon 16: 27 (2006)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
CATE Araceae
- Croat, T.B., Bay, D.C. & Yates, E.D. 2006. New Taxa of Anthurium (Araceae) from the Bajo Calima Region, (Valle, Chocó ) Colombia and Ecuador Novon. 16: 25-51
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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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
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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/
© 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 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