Anthurium bakeri Hook.f.

Epiphyte, stems less than 10 cm long, 1.5 cm diam.; roots moderately slender; leaf scars ca. 1.7 cm wide; cataphylls coriaceous, 3-6 cm long, acuminate at apex (the acumen apiculate to 2 mm), drying brown, persisting as fibers. LEAVES erect to spreading; petioles (3)11-17 cm long, to 5 mm diam., subterete to sharply sulcate; geniculum 1-1.5 cm long; blades narrowly elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 19-55 cm long, 2.8-9 cm wide, broadest at middle, acuminate at apex, narrowly rounded at base; upper surface matte, lower surface paler and matte with reddish-brown glandular punctations; midrib convexly raised below; primary lateral veins nearly obscure, flat, departing midrib at 45° angle, straight to collective vein; collective vein arising from base, sunken, significantly more prominent than the primary lateral veins, continuous to apex of leaf, 2-4 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE erect-spreading, much shorter than leaves; peduncle 5.5-30 cm long, 3-5 mm diam., half as long or as long as petioles; spathe coriaceous, pale yellow-green (B & K Yellow-green 9/10), the edges sometimes tinged with purple, 2-5.5 cm long, 7-28 mm wide, oblong-lanceolate, inserted at ca. 60° angle on peduncle, obtuse at apex and base; stipe 3 mm long, 2 mm diam.; spadix creamy white (B & K Yellow-red 9/5), 2-11 cm long, 5-15 mm diam. at base, 4.5-12 mm diam. at apex; flowers square to 4-lobed, 1.6-3.5 mm long, 1.7-3.2 mm wide, the sides jaggedly sigmoid, 7-8 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 5-6 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; tepals glossy, minutely papillate, lateral tepals 1.5 mm wide, the inner margin convex; pistils not emergent; stigma minute, slitlike, ca. 0.1 mm long, droplets apparent before stamens emerge; stamens emerging in an irregular pattern, usually lateral stamens first followed by alternates, anthers scarcely exposed, pushing pollen out around pistil, white, ca. 0.2 mm long, 0.3 mm wide; pollen white. INFRUCTESCENCE erect, spathe reflexed against peduncle; spadix 7.5-8.5 cm long, 1.2-1.4 cm diam.; berries red, pointed at apex, obovoid ca. 6 mm long; mesocarp juicy, pulpy, transparent with numerous oblong raphide cells; seeds 2, ovoid, cream-colored, flattened, 3.2 mm long, 2 mm wide, 1.2 mm thick, enveloped by a gelatinous substance extending below the base.