Anubias hastifolia Engl.

Rhizome creeping, prostrate and rooting, 1/2-1 1/2 cm thick, LEAVES: tip densely leaved. Petiole 9-67 cm long, equalling to 2.5 x as long as the leaf-blade. Sheathing for 1/4-1/2 of its length, sheath at the base wide, upwards strongly narrowed, glabrous or puberulous. Geniculum 0.8-2.0 cm long, mostly puberulous.Leaf-blade varying from (sub)hastate (nearly tripartite) to broadly ovate-oblong-lanceolate with a short cordate or auriculate base. Glabrous or below on the midrib and lateral nerves minutely puberulous. Median lobe lanceolate or elliptic to obovate-elliptic; 2-4 x as long as broad, 10-33 cm long, 3-14 cm wide, short acute or acuminate, widest at or just below the middle. Lateral lobes smaller than the median lobe, obtuse, sometimes acute, up to 26 cm long and 8 cm broad. Numerous prominent lateral nerves, with (3)6-10 less prominent lateral nerves between them. Between the lateral nerves many slender transverse veinlets. Lateral nerves at the edge anastomosing in 2-3 marginal nerves. INFLORESCENCE:Peduncle1/2 to one and a half times as long as the petiole, mostly shorter, 8-24 cm long, slender, sometimes minutely puberulous. Spathe oblong-lanceolate, convolute, not opening when flowering, but only at the upper part open (or opening as in A. afzelii and A. gigantea ), ± as long as the spadix, 2-4.5 cm long, 1 cm wide, brown, green-pinkish, or white. Spadix 1.5-4 cm long, 2-5 mm thick. Male part slightly longer to up to 3.5 times as long as the female part. Pistils not crowded, depressed-globose, more than 20. Style short, stigma discoid. Stamens 4-6. Thecae ovate, placed entirely or at least the upper half on the top of the synandrium. INFRUCTESCENCE: Seeds 1.7-2.5 mm long, 1.2-1.6 mm broad; 1.4-1.8 x as long as broad. Yellow, without any other coloured spots (dried, only observed once).