- Family: Araceae Juss.
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
Anthurium friedrichsthalii Schott
- Genus: Anthurium Schott
This species is accepted, and its native range is Central America to Ecuador.
Descriptions
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
- Nativa en Colombia; Alt. 0 - 1800 m.; Andes, Llanura del Caribe, Pacífico.
- Habit
- Hierba, trepadora, epífita
- Conservation
- No Evaluada
According to CATE Araceae
[CATE]CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org
- Habitat
- In Costa Rica and Panama it is common in tropical moist forest and is also known from premontane wet and tropical wet forest.
- General Description
- Epiphyte, usually pendent, often loosely attached by only a few roots; stem usually less than 15 cm long, 1-1.5 cm diam.; roots thin; cataphylls weathering to coarse linear-fibers. LEAVES pendent; petioles 1.5-14 cm long, mostly less than 10 cm long, ca. 2-3 mm diam., terete or flattened adaxially; geniculum 5-8 mm long; blades linear, 12-56 cm long, 0.8-4 cm wide, acuminate at apex, subacute at base; upper surface matte to semiglossy, the lower surface conspicuously glandular-punctate; the midrib acutely raised, becoming sunken at apex above, convexly raised at base, flattened at apex below; primary lateral veins 8 or more per side, flat above, obscure below; collective vein arising from the base, 3-5 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE pendent; peduncles 19-30 cm long, ca. 2.5 mm diam., terete; spathe linear, pale green, 1-5 cm long, 3-5 mm wide, rounded at base, gradually acuminate at apex, withering and soon deciduous; spadix pale green, sometimes tinged purplish, turning brownish, 3-15 cm long, 4-5 mm diam.; the flowers 4-lobed, 2.8-3.8 mm in both directions, the sides straight to weakly sigmoid; 3-4 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 2-3 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; tepals matte, minutely papillate, lateral tepals 1.6-2 mm wide; pistil not exserted; the stigma linear, 3 mm long; stamens emerging ± slowly from base, held at edge of pistil, soon completely retracting; anthers cream, ca. 0.3 mm long, 0.9 mm wide; thecae ellipsoid; pollen while. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent; spathe absent; spadix to 25 cm long, 2 cm diam.; berries pale yellow-orange, irregularly shaped broader than long, ca. 5 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, narrowing to apex, truncate with a central depression; seeds 3-4, ± ovate, greenish or yellowish, ca. 2.7 mm long.
- Distribution
- Guatemala, Nicaragua to Ecuador.
Images
Distribution
Native to:
Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá
Synonyms
Other Data
Anthurium friedrichsthalii Schott appears in other Kew resources:
Herbarium Catalogue (1 records)
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
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Jan 1, 1975 | Lehmann, F.C. [4538], Colombia | K000434205 | Unknown type material |
Bibliography
First published in Oesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. 5: 65 (1855)
Accepted by
- Idárraga-Piedrahita, A., Ortiz, R.D.C., Callejas Posada, R. & Merello, M. (eds.) (2011). Flora de Antioquia: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares 2: 1-939. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Hammel, B.E. & al. (2003). Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica 2: 1-694. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
- 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.
- Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- GBIF (2008- continuously updated). Global Biodiversity Information Facility http://www.gbif.org/.
- Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
- Stevens, W.D., Ulloa U., C., Pool, A. & Montiel, O.M. (2001). Flora de Nicaragua Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: i-xlii, 1-2666.
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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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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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