Anthurium roezlii (Araceae)
Stem very short, densely-leaved. LEAVES: Petiole slender, terete, completely green, up to 60 - 70 cm long. Leaf blade cordate-ovate or ovate-subrounded, rugose-undulate, subabruptly cuspidate at apex, up to 40 cm long and 30 cm wide, posterior lobes semi-ovate, sub-overlapping, basal primary veins 5 onn each side, innermost erect-patent curving at the apex and running out into the margin, the next closest veins at first retrorse, then curving upwards and reaching the margin at the middle of the leaf blade, the remaining veins turning downwards, the uppermost primary veins of the midrib running into the collective vein, secondary veins arising from the interlobe primary veins thick, immersed adaxially, prominent abaxially. INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle ca. 50 cm long. Spathe 10 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, elliptic, pure white, abruptly contracted at the apex into a 1 cm long narrow cusp. Spadix with a stipe 1 cm long, 6 - 7 cm long, nearly 1 cm thick, white.
Subequatorial Andine Province. Colombia, near St. Martha.