Araceae
Anthurium pulverulentum Sodiro
SUMMARY
Hemiepiphytic to epiphytic; internodes 1.5-10 cm long, 1-3 cm diam., pale yellow-green, weakly glossy, becoming brown, sometimes weakly fissured transversely; cataphylls over 30 cm long, drying reddish brown, mushy and often semi-intact at upper nodes, often persisting as pale tan fibers at lower nodes; petioles 45-94 cm long (averaging 74 cm), 4-7 mm diam., terete, several ribbed adaxially, more or less brittle, medium green, matte, narrowly flattened to narrowly sulcate and sometimes bluntly to sharply many-striate circumferentially; geniculum to ca. 2 cm long; blades ovate-cordate, acuminate at apex, 57-81 cm long, 33-54 cm wide (averaging 65 X 36 cm), 1.5-2.0 times longer than broad, .7-1.4 times longer than the petioles, broadest below point of petiole attachment, thinly coriaceous, margin convex; surfaces somewhat to conspicuously bicolorous; upper surface dark green and velvety; lower surface matte; anterior lobe 46-63 cm long, 36-54 cm wide; posterior lobes 15-22 cm long, 13-24 cm wide, directed inward, rounded; sinus spathulate, 12-18 cm deep; midrib acute and slightly paler above, round-raised and paler below; basal veins 7-8, coalesced; posterior rib partially naked; primary lateral veins 25-30, closely spaced, departing midrib at 60°-75° angles, ascending to the collective vein, deeply sunken and somewhat quilted above, narrowly pleated-raised and slightly paler below; tertiary veins in part sunken above and raised below; collective vein arising from last or next to last basal vein, 2-4 mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 19-25 cm long, 2-5 mm diam.; spathe reflexed to recurled, subcoriaceous, green, lanceolate, 22-30 cm long, 1.55-2.0 cm wide, broadest at base, acuminate at apex; spadix bluish green at anthesis, stipitate, slightly to moderately tapered, 26-28 cm long, 4-7 mm diam. at base, 3-4 mm diam. at apex, broadest at base. INFRUCTESCENCES with berries yellow-green.