''Chlorospatha'' is a
genus
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of flowering plants in the
family
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Araceae
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. ''Chlorospatha'' can be found from
Costa Rica
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,
Panama
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,
Colombia
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,
Ecuador
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, and
Peru
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.
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
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The plants are usually found in shaded bogs and are notoriously difficult to cultivate. One of the species, ''C. kressii'' is currently believed to be extinct.[Bown, Demi (2000). ''Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family''. Timber Press. .]
;Species
#'' Chlorospatha amalfiensis'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha antioquiensis'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha atropurpurea'' (Madison) Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha besseae'' Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha betancurii'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha bogneri'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Ecuador, Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha callejasii'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha castula'' (Madison) Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha cogolloi'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha corrugata'' Bogner & Madison – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha croatiana'' Grayum – Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha cutucuensis'' Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha dodsonii'' (G.S.Bunting) Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha feuersteiniae'' (Croat & Bogner) Bogner & L.P.Hannon – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha gentryi'' Grayum – Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha hammeliana'' Grayum & Croat – Panama
#'' Chlorospatha hastifolia'' Bogner & L.P.Hannon – Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha ilensis'' Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha kolbii'' Engl. – Colombia
#†'' Chlorospatha kressii'' Grayum – Chocó region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha lehmannii'' (Engl.) Madison – Ecuador, Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha longipoda'' (K.Krause) Madison – Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha luteynii'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha macphersonii'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha mirabilis'' (W.Bull) Madison – Panama, Colombia, Ecuador
#'' Chlorospatha nicolsonii'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Antioquia region of Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha planadensis'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Colombia
#'' Chlorospatha ricaurtensis'' Croat & L.P.Hannon – Colombia
References
Aroideae
Araceae genera
Taxa named by Adolf Engler
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