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  1. Family: Araceae Juss.
    1. Genus: Anthurium Schott

      1. Anthurium friedrichsthalii Schott

        This species is accepted, and its native range is Central America to Ecuador.

    [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
    [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.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panamá

    Anthurium friedrichsthalii Schott appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Jan 1, 1975 Lehmann, F.C. [4538], Colombia K000434205 Unknown type material

    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.
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
    'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. 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 2020. 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