Anthurium schlechtendalii subsp. jimenezii (Matuda) Croat

Usually terrestrial or epilithic; stem less than 30 cm long, ca. 3-4 cm diam.; roots numerous, dense, ascending to descending, tan to greenish, usually smooth, short and thick, tapered, 5-10 mm diam.; cataphylls subcoriaceous, broadly lanceolate, 6-7 cm long, acute to obtuse and weakly apiculate at apex, light green tinged with red, drying brown, persisting ± intact at the upper nodes, eventually deciduous. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 2-17 cm long, 8-10 mm diam., subquadrangular to trapezoidal, flattened to broadly and sharply sulcate adaxially, the margins somewhat raised, 2-3-ribbed abaxially, the surface minutely pale-speckled; geniculum paler and thicker than petiole, becoming fissured transversely with age, 1-2 cm long; blades moderately coriaceous, oblanceolate to oblong-oblanceolate, acute to acuminate at apex (the acumen apiculate), acute to obtuse to narrowly rounded at base, 36-104 cm long, 6-32 cm wide, broadest well above the middle, the margins undulate; both surfaces glossy to semiglossy, dark green above, paler, sometimes bluish green below; midrib above flat at base, becoming obtusely to acutely angular and then weakly sunken toward the apex, below prominently higher than broad and sharply 2-ribbed at base, becoming prominently and convexly raised toward the apex and paler than surface: primary lateral veins 9-14 per side, departing midrib at 50-70° angle, weakly arcuate-ascending, raised at the midrib, becoming sunken toward the margin above, prominently raised and darker than surface below, much more prominent than interprimary veins; interprimary veins weakly sunken above, prominulous below; tertiary veins weakly sunken above, weakly raised and darker than surface below; collective vein arising in the lower half or in the upper third of blade or absent, flat to weakly sunken above, prominulous below, 2-4 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES erect, shorter than leaves; peduncle 10-54 cm long, equalling or 2-3.4 x as long as petiole, medium green weakly tinged reddish, terete; spathe spreading, subcoriaceous to moderately coriaceous, green weakly tinged with purple (B & K yellow-green 6/5), lanceolate, 4-8.5 cm long, 1-2.5 cm wide, broadest just above the base, inserted at 30° angle on peduncle, oblique and narrowly acuminate at apex (the acumen inrolled), subcordate at base; spadix greenish tinged with purple (B & K yellow-green 6/5), weakly and bluntly tapered, curved, 3.5-14 cm long, 5-17 mm diam. near base, 2-5 mm diam. near apex; Bowers rhombic to 4-lobed, 2.1-2.6 mm long, 2.7-2.9 mm wide, the sides straight to jaggedly sigmoid; 10-12 flowers visible in principal spiral, 6-8 in alternate spiral; tepals densely and minutely papillate, sparsely punctate, with numerous droplets at anthesis; lateral tepals 0.8-1.5 mm wide, the inner margins straight to very broadly convex, the outer margins 2-4-sided; pistils weakly emergent, medium green, darker than tepals; stigma oblong ellipsoid, 0.3-0.5 mm long; stamens emerging promptly in a regular sequence from the base, the laterals preceding the alternates by 6 spirals, the 3rd stamen preceding the 4th by 3 spirals, held just above tepals in a circle around the pistil; anthers conspicuously white to pale orange (B & K yellow 9/5), 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.8-1 mm wide, inclined over the pistil; thecae oblong-ellipsoid to ovoid, 0.5 mm wide, slightly or not divaricate; pollen bright yellow fading to white. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent; berries red, oblong-ellipsoid, rounded at apex, 11 mm long, 9 mm diam.; mesocarp with numerous dense raphide cells; seeds 2 per berry, tan, oblong-ellipsoid, flattened, 6 mm long, 4 mm diam., 2 mm thick, with pale punctiform raphide cells, with a sticky, gelatinous apical appendage.