Anthurium subaequans Croat & Oberle

Scandent or appressed climber; stems to 4 m, sometimes red; internodes terete, slender and elongate, 5-15 cm long, drying 4-6 mm diam.; cataphylls 5-7 cm long, caudate at apex, drying brown, usually persisting as linear fibers. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 1-7 cm long, 0.9-1.6 mm diam., subterete, flattened adaxially; geniculum 7-10 mm long, only slightly thicker and darker than petiole; blades subcoriaceous, narrowly ovate, gradually acuminate at apex (acumen 6-18 mm long), truncate to rounded or subcordate at base, variable, 8-15 cm long, 3-6 cm wide, broadest at lower 1/3; upper surface dark green, semi-glossy, drying grayish green, matte; lower surface yellowish green, drying paler, weakly semiglossy with conspicuous black glandular punctations; midrib drying acutely raised above, prominently acute below; primary lateral veins 6-9 per side, departing midrib at a 35°-50° angle, straight to collecting vein, prominulous above and below, scarcely more prominent than interprimary veins; tertiary veins weakly prominulous; collective veins arising from base, sunken above, prominulous below, 2-6 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE erect-spreading; peduncle often tinged reddish, terete, 6-15 em long, drying 0.9-1.9 mm diam.; spathe green becoming reddish to purplish, ovate, 2-4 em long, 1.5-9 mm wide, reflexed, chartaceous, apiculate at the apex (apiculum 0.5-1.7 mm long), margins almost meeting then decurrent at base; spadix green becoming deep purple, sub-stipitate, elongate, erect or held at up to 90° angle from peduncle, 3.5-7.5 cm long, drying 1.5-3 mm wide; flowers rhombic, 2.5 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, about 2 flowers visible in principal spiral, about 3 flowers visible in alternate spiral; stigma oblong; tepals matte with droplets, lateral tepals 0.6 mm wide, inner margin straight, outer margins 3-sided; anther oblong, 0.6 mm long, 0.4 mm wide, thecae contiguous. INFRUCTESCENCE with berries mainly in lower portion or scattered throughout; berries light purple, globose, apex rounded, drying 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm diam., seeds not seen.