Anthurium watermaliense L.H.Bailey & Nash

Terrestrial; stem to 25 cm long, (1)1.5-3 cm diam.; roots numerous, descending, velutinous, 3-4 mm diam.; cataphylls thin, 4.5-14 cm long, .obtuse to acute at apex, persisting as coarse linear fibers. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles (12)25- 60(88) cm long, ca. 4-5 mm diam., subterete, flattened to slightly and narrowly sulcate with blunt to rounded margins adaxially, rounded abaxially; geniculum, 1 -1.5 cm long; blades moderately coriaceous, ovate-triangular, long-acuminate at apex, deeply lobed at base, 21-60 cm long, (14)20-40 cm wide; anterior lobe 20-45 cm long; the posterior lobes mostly oblong, (7)14-26 cm long, (3.5)5-l0(16) cm wide, rounded at apex; sinus parabolic to hippocrepiform; both surfaces semiglossy; midrib convexly raised above and below; basal veins 5-8 pairs, 2nd through 8th coalesced 4.5-8 cm, prominulous above and below; posterior rib mostly naked, weakly turned up on outer margin; primary lateral veins 4-8 per side, departing midrib at 40-45º angle, prominulous in grooves above, prominulous below; tertiary veins conspicuously raised below when dried; collective vein arising from 1st or 2nd basal vein, raised above and below, equally as prominent as primary lateral veins when dried, 3-6 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES spreading, shorter than leaves; peduncle (12)25-60(75) cm long, 3-7 mm diam., 0.5-1.5 x as long as petiole; spathe erect to reflexed, subcoriaceous, usually dark violet-purple, sometimes green, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 5-1 5(2 1) cm long, (1.5)2-6(8.5) cm wide, inserted at 75º angle on peduncle, long-acuminate at apex, acute to rounded (rarely cordate) and conspicuously decurrent at base; stipe 0.3-3 cm long; spadix white to greenish, yellow or purple, tapered, 7-19 cm long, 5-10 mm diam. near base, 2-5 mm diam. near apex; flowers rhombic to 4-lobed, 1.5-3.4 mm long, 1.8-3.1 mm wide, the sides straight to jaggedly sigmoid; 5-12 flowers visible in principal spiral, 6-16 in alternate spiral; tepals matte, punctate; lateral tepals 1.5-2.2 mm wide, the inner margins convex to i straight; pistils raised, protruding beyond the stamens at anthesis, glossy, weakly exserted just before stamens emerged, dark green; stigma narrowly ellipsoid, ca. 0.5 mm long, droplets appearing 2-3 days before stamens emerge; stamens emerging rapidly from the base or sometimes in a scattered pattern throughout, held erect above the tepals; filaments translucent, exserted, 0.3-0.4 mm long, 0.6 mm wide; anthers creamy white, 0.9 mm long, 0.9-1 mm wide; thecae ellipsoid, divaricate; pollen white. INFRUCTESCENCE with spadix to 22 cm long, ca. 2 cm diam., bearing berries in the basal portion only; berries yellow to usually orange, ovoid to obovoid, shortly beaked at apex, 10-15 mm long, ca. 4-5 mm diam.