Araceae
Anthurium kusuense Croat
SUMMARY
Terrestrial or epiphytic, to 1 m, stems erect, 16 × 2.7-3.5 cm, drying brownish gray, woody; leaf scars conspicuous, hippocrepiform, 1-2 cm deep, 1.4-1.9 cm wide; internodes short, 1.5-2 × 2.7-3.5 cm, roots adventitious, emerging from nodes of the erect stem, drying brownish gray, scurfy, to 16 cm long, roots 2.5-3 mm diam.; cataphylls ribbed, (6.5) 8.5-9.2 (10) cm long, lanceolate, acute at apex, subcoriaceous, drying grayish brown, persisting semi-intact, dilacerating as coarse, yellow-brown linear fibers with the apex occasionally remaining intact. LEAVES: Petioles 78.6-92.5(111) cm × 6-11 mm, erect, sulcate, purple when fresh, drying gray-green, weakly striate to speckled; blades subcoriaceous, ovate to widely ovate, acute at apex, deeply cordate at base, 63-65.5 × 38-58 cm, broadest at point of petiole attachment, margins entire, convex; anterior lobes 31.2-45.6 × 38-58 cm; posterior lobes 17.3-21.9 × (12) 17-17.2 cm, bicolorous, abaxially paler, matte on both surfaces; midrib narrowly rounded above to narrowly convex below; primary lateral veins 7-8 per side, recurved ascending to the collective vein, straight, curving toward margin, narrowly convex, darker than lower surface, departing midrib at 45°-60º angle; basal veins 5-8 pairs, fused 1st-5th or 6th to the basal ribs; interprimary and secondary veins conspicuously prominent below, slightly sunken above; collective veins arising from 4th to 6th pair of basal veins, marginal or to 0.3 mm from the margins. INFLORESCENCE erect to erect-spreading; peduncle (21.8) 28-43.2 cm × 2-8 mm, 0.4-0.5 longer than the petiole; drying brownish green, ribbed; spathe erect, subcoriaceous, light green to green, drying yellow-brown and weakly striate, lanceolate, (7)9.5-12.7 × 1.9-2.6 cm, broadest just above the base, acuminate at apex, obtuse at base, margins forming 40º-60° angle on peduncle; spadix drying light reddish brown, cylindric to slightly tapered, erect, 5.6-9.4 cm × 4-8 mm diam., white to light green; stipe light reddish brown, 3 mm long in front, 2 mm long in back, 2 mm diam. Flowers rhombic, 1-1.5 × 1-1.5 mm. INFRUCTESCENCE with berries purple tinged, white base, along twisting spadix.