Anthurium galileanum Croat

Terrestrial; internodes short, drying 1.2-2 cm diam., grayish brown; cataphylls ca. 5.5 cm long, drying pale reddish gray or reddish brown, oblong or lanceolate, persisting intact at upper internodes only, sometimes starting to weather to pale longitudinal fibers, then quickly deciduous. LEAVES; Petioles ca. 43 cm long, drying 4-6 mm diam., sulcate at least near base, drying smooth, reddish gray; geniculum red, 1.5 cm long, drying 4 mm diam., minutely ridged and warty on drying; blades triangular-hastate, bluntly acute and shortly acuminate at apex, prominently lobed at base, 43 × 40 cm, drying gray, tinged with green, semi-glossy above, drying grayish green, matte to weakly glossy below; anterior lobe 38.5 cm long, 12 cm wide at midpoint, +/- straight at margins; posterior lobe 20.5 × 11 cm, sinus broadly parabolic, 4.5 cm deep; midrib narrowly rounded with an acute medial rib, +/- concolorous below; primary lateral veins ca. 8 per side, 1.5-3.5 cm apart, departing midrib at a ca. 50° angle, essentially straight to a collective vein, bluntly and narrowly raised above, concolorous to slightly paler and bluntly acute below; basal veins ca. 4 per side, 1st almost free to base, 3rd-4th coalesced to 5.5 cm, +/- concolorous below, weakly raised; posterior rib naked 5 cm long along the sinus; collective veins arising from one of the lower basal veins, about equally as prominent as primary lateral veins, 7-10 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE with peduncle 28 cm long, drying 1-2 mm diam., pale reddish brown tinged with gray; spathe erect, drying reddish brown tinged with gray, lanceolate, 7.5 × 0.9 cm, gradually acuminate at apex; spadix drying reddish brown, somewhat tapered, erect, somewhat curved, ca. 6 cm long, drying 5 mm diam. Flowers 1.6-1.9 × 1.8-2.1 mm, 4-5 visible per spiral; tepals minutely granular and frosted white; lateral tepals 0.8-1.1 mm wide, inner margins broadly rounded, outer margins 3- sided.