- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
Anthurium lojtnantii Croat
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
This species is accepted, and its native range is Ecuador.
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Distribution
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Anthurium lojtnantii is endemic to Ecuador known at present only in Manabi, Guayas and Los Rios Provinces and found in the low hills at the base of the Andes at 220-220 m in Premontane moist forest and Tropical wet forest at 220 m.
- General Description
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Terrestrial, ca. .2-.3 m high; dried stem moderately smooth, semiglossy under magnification; internodes 1-4 cm long, 3-4 mm diam., drying smooth, gray-green; cataphylls 5-6.3 cm long, pale green, drying thin, promptly deciduous; petioles 10-17 cm long, 1-2 mm diam., subterete; blades ovate-cordate to narrowly ovate-cordate, moderately to weakly cordate at base, narrowly acuminate at apex, 12-19 cm long, 6-9.5 cm wide, approximately 2 times longer than wide, 1-1.3 times longer than petiole, semiglossy above, paler semiglossy below, drying pale green above, lighter green below; basal veins 3(-4) pairs, the 1st pair forming a collective vein .2-.4 cm from margin; primary lateral veins 8-12 pairs, arising at 30-38° from midrib, raised below, drying paler below; secondary and tertiary veins obvious. INFLORESCENCE with peduncles 9-22 cm long, drying 1-1.5 mm diam., dried color light greenish brown; spathe green, narrowly linear-lanceolate, 3-5 cm long, 4-11 mm wide; spadix green, 2.5-5 cm long, 2-4 mm diam.; flowers 5 visible per spiral, 2.6-3 mm long, 2.3-2.5 mm wide, lateral tepals 1.6-1.8 mm wide, outside margin 2-sided, inside margin broadly rounded, very thin and almost translucent.
Distribution
Other Data
Anthurium lojtnantii Croat appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Aroideana 31: 32 (2008)
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.
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