Anthurium ramonense Engl. ex K.Krause

Epiphyte; stems short; roots pale green, in dense mass, ascending; cataphylls 8-11 cm long, coriaceous, drying brown, weathering into fibers and persisting at base of leaves. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles subterete, narrowly and bluntly sulcate, 4-17 cm long, 4-7 mm diam.; geniculum 1.5-2 cm long; blades elliptic to broadly elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, moderately thick, 22-54 cm long, 9.5-24 cm wide, abruptly acuminate at apex, acute to obtuse at base; semiglossy above and below, conspicuously punctate below; the midrib raised and ± flattened (sometimes shallowly sulcate near base) above, convexly to acutely raised below; primary lateral veins 15-18 per side, departing midrib at 45° angle, sunken above, raised below, straight to collective vein, loop-connecting with collective vein; lesser veins obscure; collective vein arising from base, 3-6 mm from the margin. INFLORESCENCE spreading-pendent, shorter or longer than leaves; peduncle 9-34 cm long, 3-9 mm diam., sometimes tinged reddish-violet, conspicuously ribbed beneath opening of spathe; spathe coriaceous, yellow-green sometimes suffused with purple, lanceolate or oblong, 6-12 cm long, 1.5-2.8 cm wide. short-acuminate at apex, obtuse to rounded at base, inserted at 40°- 45° angle on peduncle; spadix green, tinged red-violet in later stages, 13-36 cm long, 5-11 cm diam. at base, 4-7 cm diam. at apex; flowers rhombic, 4-5 mm long, 3-3.5 mm wide, the sides straight to weakly sigmoid; 4 - 8 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 6-10 flowers visible per alternate spiral; tepals matte, minutely papillate, lateral tepals 2.5-3.5 mm wide, the inner margin ± straight; pistil emergent but not raised, pale red-violet; stigma greenish, linear, not conspicuously open; stamens emerging rapidly throughout, anthers barely visible at edge of pistil, soon retracting leaving only sparse amount of white pollen. INFRUCTESCENCE with spadix to 48 cm long, berries pale red, to faintly lavender or grayish-white, flattened at apex (depressed around style), 4-5 mm long, 5-7 mm wide (direction of axis), 4.5-5 mm wide (perpendicular to axis); seeds 3-4, greenish-while, 1.6-3 mm long, 1.3-2.1 mm wide, 1.2-1.5 mm thick; mesocarp juicy, gelatinous, translucent.