- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
Anthurium cocornaense Croat
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
This species is accepted, and its native range is Colombia.
Descriptions
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- General Description
- Epiphytic vine; internodes elongated and slender, 9– 11 cm long, 3 mm diam. upon drying; cataphylls membranaceous, persistent, 3.5–5 cm long, drying reddish brown. Leaves with petiole terete, slender, rising at 50–70° angle from the caudex, 3.5–7 cm long, c. 2 mm diam. upon drying; blade narrowly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, 9.5–14.5 cm long, 3.9–5.2 cm wide, averaging 12 × 4.4 cm, 2.4–3 × longer than wide, 2–3.3 × as long as petiole, subcoriaceous, dark green and semiglossy above, light green and semiglossy (drying glossy) with glandular punctuations below, the margin slightly inrolled downwards when dried; midrib moderately raised and slightly paler above, sharply raised and paler below; primary lateral veins 4–5 pairs, rising at 45–75° angle, flat above and moderately raised below, concolorous; collective veins arising from the 1st pair of basal veins, 3–8 mm from margin; basal veins consisting of one main pair turning into the collective veins, and sometimes a diffuse 2nd pair near the base. Inflorescences several, rising at 40–70° angle from each node along the stem; peduncle terete, thinner and much longer than petioles, 9–10 cm long, c. 1 mm diam.; spathe membranaceous, lanceolate, 2.5–3 cm long, c. 6 mm wide, becoming reflexed then caducous in fruit, reddish; spadix reddish, stipitate for 3 mm, thin and cylindrical when young, becoming thicker and knotty at maturity, 2.5–3 cm long, 2–3 mm diam. when young, growing to 7 mm diam. in fruit. Flowers 2.2–2.4 mm long and wide, 3 visible per spiral; tepals drying dark yellowbrown, smooth except for an occasional large pale cellular inclusion, lateral tepals 0.5–0.7 mm wide, outer margins 2–3 sided, inner margins rounded, scarious.
- Diagnostic
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The species is a member of Anthurium sect. Tetraspermium and is characterised by its elongated slender internodes, persistent, slender, intact, reddish brown cataphylls, ovate-elliptic blades and long-pedunculate inflorescence with a shortly stipitate, pinkish spadix and pinkish spathe.
The species appears to be close to Anthurium subaequans Croat & Oberle, another member of A. sect. Tetraspermium, which shares similar features. The latter differs by cataphylls persisting as net-reticulated fibres and blades that are glandular punctate on both surfaces and conspicuously roughened with mounded cells on the upper surface. In contrast, the leaf blades are glandularpunctate only on the lower surface and smooth on the upper surface in A. cocornaense. It is also similar to A. scandens (Aubl.) Engl., but that species has cataphylls persisting as net-reticulated fibres and has blades that are narrowly elliptic and obtuse at the base rather than ovatelanceolate and rounded as is the case in A. cocornaense. - Distribution
- Endemic to Colombia (Antioquia), known only from the type locality at Municipio Cocorná.
- Habitat
- Premontane rain forest life zone.
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. 2000 m.; Andes.
- Habit
- Hierba, trepadora, epífita
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
Distribution
Other Data
Anthurium cocornaense Croat appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
First published in Willdenowia 40: 76 (2010)
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., Delannay, X. & Kostelac, C. 2010. New species of Araceae from Colombia. Willdenowia, 40 (1), 63-122.
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