Anthurium salvinii Hemsl.

Epiphytic, rarely epilithic; stem to 6 cm diam.; roots dense, usually ascending, some descending, moderately numerous, greenish to white, pubescent, moderately short and tapered, 3-6 mm diam.; cataphylls thick, fistlike, cucullate, rounded at apex, drying brown, persisting intact, ultimately becoming fibrous at base. LEAVES erect to spreading; petioles (3)5-23 cm long, 10-20 mm diam., ± D-shaped to terete, flattened to sulcate adaxially, the margins not prominent, rounded abaxially (once reported as prominently 5-7-ribbed), the surface pale-speckled; geniculum paler and thicker than petiole, 0.7-2 cm long; blades moderately coriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, acuminate to obtuse at apex, attenuate to rounded or truncate (rare subcordate) at base, (32)39-180 cm long, (9)13-50 cm wide, broadest usually above (sometimes at or near the middle), the margins slightly undulate; both surfaces semiglossy, medium green (B & K yellow-green 4/7.5) above, slightly paler below; both surfaces drying greenish to brownish green; midrib convexly raised at base, becoming acute toward the apex above, convexly raised at base, becoming obtusely raised toward the apex below; primary lateral veins 9-24 per side, convexly raised above and below; interprimary veins rarely present; tertiary veins weakly raised to obscure above, weakly raised to flat and darker than surface below; collective vein arising from near the apex or absent (often from below the middle in small plants), weakly raised, 3-5 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES spreading to usually pendent, shorter than leaves; peduncle 16-80 cm long, 2-5 mm diam., 3.1-10.3 x as long as petiole, terete; spathe spreading to recurled, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, purple or sometimes green tinged with red or purple (B & K yellow-green 6/5), lanceolate-linear, (4)10.5-40(50) cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, inserted at 45-90° angle on peduncle, gradually acuminate at apex (the acumen cuspidate, inrolled), rounded to truncate or acute at base; spadix pale green when immature, soon lavender to dull violet-purple to purple-maroon, glaucous, long-tapered, slightly curved, (6)10-34(47) cm long, 4-15 mm diam. near base, 2-7 mm diam. near apex; flowers rhombic, 2.4-2.5 mm in both directions, the sides straight to sigmoid; 6-8 flowers visible in principal spiral, 4-12 in alternate spiral; tepals matte; lateral tepals 1.2-1.3 mm wide, the inner margins broadly rounded; pistils emergent but not raised, green; stigma linear to oblong-ellipsoid, 0.6-0.9 mm long; stamens emerging from the base in a slow, regular progression; anthers orange to pale yellow to creamy white, ca. 1 mm long, 0.9 mm wide, held at edge of tepals and inclined over pistil; thecae ellipsoid; pollen pale yellow-orange fading to white. INFRUCTESCENCE with spadix to 60 cm long; berries red, oblong-ellipsoid, rounded at apex, 10- 15 mm long; mesocarp transparent, gelatinous; seeds 2 per berry, oblong, flattened, ca. 3-5 mm long.