Anthurium amplexispathum: A new species of Anthurium sect. Xialophyllium (Araceae) from the eastern slope of the Andes Mountains

 

Oscar Mauricio López-Floriano, Marco Aurelio Correa-Munera, Edwin Trujillo-Trujillo & Alejandro Zuluaga-Trochez

 

ABSTRACT

A new species, Anthurium amplexispathum (section Xialophyllium), is described from the lower montane wet forests of eastern slopes of the Andes in Caquetá Department of Colombia. This terrestrial herb is distinguished from closely related species (A. pulchellum Engl., A. terracola Croat, and A. gracilipedunculatum K.Krause) by its cataphylls persistent intact in the upper nodes and fibrous in the lower, oblong-elliptic to ovate leaf blades with 9–12 primary lateral veins arising at angle 30–50° and long spadix stipes. 

 

KEYWORDS

Pothoideae, Anthurium, Colombia, new species.