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Araceae
Anthurium miquelianum K.Koch & Augustin
SUMMARY
Stem thick, assurgent very high (to 3 m); cataphylls herbaceous, pale greenish, then brown. LEAVES: Petiole subterete, very mildly sulcate adaxially, 1-6 dm [10 - 16 cm] long, 1.5 cm diam.; geniculum 1 cm long or longer; blades thick, coriaceous, deep green, shiny above; longer than petiole or almost equalling it, elliptic-oblong, gradually narrowed toward the apex and base, the lowermost acute at the base, 3-5 dm [30 - 50 cm] long, 1.4-2 dm [14 - 20 cm] wide at the middle; midrib rounded below and above; primary lateral veins 16-18 pairs, together with secondary veins parallel, spreading at about a 90 degree angle, (secondary veins interspersed between primary veins), joined in a collective vein well away from the margin. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle shorter than leaf, sharply angled adaxially or adaxially and abaxially, 3-5 dm [30 - 50 cm] long; spathe lanceolate, linear-cuspidate, short-decurrent at the base, greenish, 7.5 cm long, 1-1.25 cm wide, (acumen 1.5 - 2 cm long); spadix very short-stipitate, longer by half or twice as long as spathe, violetish. INFRUCTESCENCE: Berries obovoid-subglobose, green at the top, yellow green toward the base; seeds obovoid, compressed, yellow.