Anthurium carchiense Croat

Terrestrial or epiphytic; internodes mostly short, rarely to 1.5 cm long, .5-3 cm diam.; roots numerous, drying light tan; cataphylls drying reddish brown when intact, tan as fibers, persisting as closely parallel or loosely reticulate fibers; petioles (11-)27-32 cm long (averaging 23.7 cm), 2-5 mm diam. upon drying, erect, terete to triangular or D-shaped, obscurely and narrowly sulcate when young, narrowly rounded abaxially when mature, sharply flattened adaxially with sharp erect margins; geniculum slightly paler and thicker than petiole; blades oblong-elliptic, broadly acuminate at apex, acute at base, 29-58(68) cm long, 5.5-12 (-18) cm wide (averaging 50.2 x 10.2 cm), broadest at or near middle, subcoriaceous; upper surface dark green and almost matte; lower surface slightly paler and semiglossy; midrib convex when young, broadly flattened in age, scarcely paler above, acute and slightly paler below; primary lateral veins 13-18 per side, departing midrib at 60°-75° angles, scarcely raised above, flat and darker than surface below; interprimary veins nearly as conspicuous as primary lateral veins; collective vein arising from one of lowermost primary lateral veins, 7-10 mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES erect-spreading; peduncle 10-50 cm long, 3-8 mm diam.; spathe green, erect-spreading to reflexed, oblong-lanceolate, less than 8 cm long; spadix dark purple, oblong, erect, 5-8 cm long, 3-5 mm wide; pistils weakly protruding. INFRUCTESCENCES with spadix 14 cm long, 13 mm diam. dried; berries early emergent, orange-red at maturity, narrowly ovate, acute at apex.