Anthurium podophyllum (Cham. & Schltdl.) Kunth

Usually terrestrial or epipetric, often more than 1 m tall; stems 2.5-3.5 cm diam.; roots descending: cataphylls, coriaceous, 7.5-11 cm long, gradually acuminate at apex, drying medium brown, persisting as linear fibers. LEAVES with petioles erect-spreading, 39-69 cm long, ca. 9 mm diam., D-shaped; geniculum 5 cm long; blades subcoriaceous, broadly ovate, deeply to broadly lobed at base, (3)5-10 pedatisect, the lobes usually 5-12 pinnatifid, fused 8-1O cm at base, 16-47 cm long; the outermost lobes 7.5-27 cm long, auriculate; sinus hippocrepiform to nearly arcuate, rounded at apex; upper surface glossy, lower surface semiglossy; midrib of median lobe raised, rounded, diminished and flat at apex above, raised below; primary lateral veins 2-3 per side, departing midrib at 40° angle, sunken above, raised below; basal veins 3-5 pairs, second and third coalesced to 2 cm, the third and fourth coalesced 3.2 cm; the posterior ribs straight; collective vein arising from the first primary lateral vein, 8-9 mm from the margin, sunken above, raised below. INFLORESCENCE spreading-pendent, longer than leaves; peduncle 38-100 cm long, to 6 mm diam., terete, equal to or longer than petioles; spathe subcoriaceous, yellow-green (B & K Yellow-green 7/7.5), lanceolate, 4.5-9 cm long, 1.6-2.2 cm wide, broadest just above base, acuminate at apex, inserted at 45° angle on peduncle; stipe 9 mm long in front, 5 mm long in back, 4 mm diam.; spadix green, sometimes tinged with purple (B & K Yellow-green 6/5), 4-14 cm long, 7-11 mm diam. at base, 3-5 mm diam. at apex; flowers rhombic, 3.2-4.6 mm long, 2.5-4.6 mm wide, the sides straight to weakly sigmoid; 6-8 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 7-9 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; tepals matte, minutely papillate, lateral tepals 1.2-2.2 mm wide, the inner margins broadly rounded, turned up against pistils; pistil emergent, green; stigma linear, 0.6 mm long, dry, brown, crusty before stamens emerge; stamens emerging in a moderately slow sequence from base, exserted above pistil, then withdrawing, the leading stamens in any phase only a few spirals ahead of succeeding stamens; filament green; anthers white, held over pistil in tight cluster, ca. 0.6 mm in both directions; thecae narrowly ovoid, dark brown, slightly divaricate; pollen cream-colored. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent, spathe persisting; spadix to 4.5 cm diam.; berries dull orange (B & K Yellow-red 7/5), obovoid to obovoid-ellipsoid, rounded at apex, 13-19 mm long, 7-15 mm diam.; mesocarp thick, juicy, orange with small raphide cells; seeds 1 or 2, pale green, flattened, oblong to oblong-obovoid, 9-10 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, 3.3-4.3 mm thick (sometimes with one large almost subterete seed) with appendages at both ends, the lower appendage flattened, about as broad as the seed.