Anthurium lingua
A mostly terrestrial Anthurium of the montane forests of southern Ecuador and adjacent Colombia and Peru, often on the sandstone plateaus of the Cordillera del Cóndor. It grows mostly between about 1150 m and 2900 m, in cool, wet montane forest. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Where it grows wild
Most often recorded as a terrestrial herb, sometimes as an epiphyte, in very humid premontane and montane forest. Habitats include dense forest on sandstone plateaus with very acidic sandy soil under humus and litter, shrubby forest on white-sandstone ridges, and stream edges. Petioles and inflorescence stalks are reddish, the spathe and spadix are green to reddish, and the fruits ripen reddish purple.
Recorded from about 1150 m to 2900 m, with a median near 2000 m.
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