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Catalog #: 234310

Occurrence ID: f4e0da84-8383-4b17-bcb8-701f6b19b268

Collector: Thomas Bernard Croat

Number: 104400

Date: 2012-10-16

Verbatim Date: 16 October 2012

Additional Collectors: Thomas B. Croat, Geneviève Ferry, David Scherberich, Claudia L. Henríquez R. & Elisa Levy

Locality: Ecuador, Carchi, Mira, Parroquia Gualchan; along road from El Chical and Gualchan, eastern slopes of divide between El Chical and Gualchan; 19 km S of bridge over río Gualpi.

0.8339  -78.2201  WGS84

Verbatim Coordinates: 00°50'02"N 078°13'13"W

Elevation: 1929 meters Verbatim Elevation: 1929 m

Description: Terrestrial; internodes short, light brown, matte; cataphylls 33 cm long, 1 cm diam., medium green, persisting as pale brown fibers with large fragments of epidermis; petioles 65 cm long, sharply C-shaped, flattened adaxially with margins acute, raised and two medial prominent ribs and with 1 or 2 sharp ribs on either side, rounded abaxially, dark green, matte; blades subcoriaceous, dark green and moderately glossy above, moderately paler and weakly glossy below; midrib acute and slightly paler above, round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins deeply quilted-sunken above, narrowly raised and slightly paler below; tertiary veins in part raised below; collective veins from 6th pair of basal veins; inflorescences erect-spreading; peduncle 34 cm x 4.5 mm; spathe reflexed-spreading, 16.5-30.5 cm x 2.5-3.8 cm wide, semiglossy, margins rolled tightly under; spadix sessile, 19.2 -25(30) x 1.2-1.4 cm wide, blue-green, glaucous, matte.

Individual Count: 1

Record ID: f4e0da84-8383-4b17-bcb8-701f6b19b268

For additional information about this specimen, please contact: Diana Fernández, Curator (diana.fernandez@biodiversidad.gob.ec)