Anthurium antioquiense
Rupicolous herb; stems to ca. 25 cm long, creeping; internodes short, 1.0-1.5 cm diam.; roots dense, descending; cataphylls 5-11 cm long, persisting intact, drying reddish brown; petioles ca. half as long as blades, 5-19 cm long, 2-4 mm diam., narrowly and obscurely sulcate, semiglossy; blades narrowly lanceolate-elliptic, 10-27 x 2-5.5 cm, 3.6-9.6 times longer than broad, glossy to semiglossy on both surfaces, moderately bicolorous; midrib convex on both surfaces, slightly paler above, bluntly acute and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins 3-4(-6) per side, primary lateral veins and collective veins etched above, weakly raised below; basal veins 3, the lateral pair prominently extending to the base. INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncles (6.5-)12-31 cm long, ca. 2 mm diam.; spathe white, rarely reported as lavender (Hammel et al. 15431), or lightly suffused with lavender (Ingram 873), erect-spreading, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, 2.5-4(-7) cm x 6-14 mm at middle; spadix lavender to pinkish purple, stipitate 4-6 mm, narrowly cylindric, 1.5-3(-5) cm x 3-4 mm, sweetly fragrant. Flowers produce a mint-like aroma (fide Hammel 15431). INFRUCTESCENCE white to green; berries not seen.
Anthurium antioquiense is endemic to Colombia, known principally from Antioquia in the Central Cordillera from near sea level to 1300 m, mostly below 1000 m. It has been collected in areas of Tropical moist forest transition to Premontane (T-mf/P), Premontane wetforest (P-wf), Tropical moist forest/Tropical wet forest transition zone and also Tropical wet forest transition to Premontane (T-wf/P).