Anthurium silvicola Engl.

Stem ca. 2 cm thick, internodes abbreviated. Cataphylls lanceolate. LEAVES: Petiole 3 - 3.5 times shorter than blade, ca. 13 - 17 cm long, subterete, obtusely angled and narrowly canaliculate above, geniculum 7 - 8 mm long. Blade coriaceous, rigid, somewhat glossy on both sides, linear-lanceolate, equally narrowed at both ends, long-acuminate acute, 40 - 45 cm long, 5 - 6 cm wide; primary lateral veins arcuate, 1 - 2 cm apart, joined into a collective vein 2 - 3 mm from margin, strongly prominent below, minor veins rather densely reticulate (prominent when dry). INFLORESCENCE: Peduncle longer than petiole. Spathe lanceolate, 6 - 7 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, green to copper coloured. Spadix sessile, 1 cm thick, cylindric, obtuse, 2 times longer than spathe, ca. 10 cm long. Tepals twice as long as broad, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, brown. Ovary oblong, 2.5 mm long, 1.5 mm thick.