Anthurium pariense G.S.Bunting

Subrosulate herb with up to 6 erect to patent leaves. Stem very short with strongly abbreviated internodes, covered with the fibrous, persistent remnants of the cataphylls. LEAVES: Petiole 1.5 - 3 times shorter than the blade, up to 40 cm long, thick, semi-terete, geniculum ca. 1 cm long. Leaf blade coriaceous, rigid, oblong-elliptic or narrowly triangular, 3.7 - 5 times longer than wide, up to 62 cm long and 11 - 16.5 cm wide, primary veins on both sides 1 or 2 arising from the base of the wide midrib and curving upwards, the innermost pair joining into a sulcate collective vein running to the apex and remote from the margin, the outer pair when present not reaching above the middle of the blade and disappearing into the margin, truncate or subcordate at the base, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, adaxially dark green with the primary lateral veins of the midrib numerous, slender and inconspicuous, abaxially greyish green with the midrib intensely rose-coloured, later becoming yellowish brown. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle 60 - 110 cm long. Spathe ascending or reflexed, coriaceous, sub-oblong, decurrent at the base, acuminate at the apex, up to 17.5 cm long, 2.2 cm wide, purplish to bronze green. Spadix sessile, dark purple, up to 26 cm long, 0.9 - 1.5 cm thick. Berries unknown.