Anthurium eximium Engl.

Epiphyte; stem elongate, ca. 1 cm diam.; roots thick; cataphylls persisting intact, overlapping at base, drying yellow-brown. LEAVES spreading; petioles broadly sulcate, rounded to 3-ribbed abaxially, 7-12 cm long, 6-7 mm diam.; blades narrowly oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, 40-80 cm long, 5-11.5 cm wide, narrowly attenuate at base, long-acuminate at apex; primary lateral veins 10-12 per side, raised above and below (dry), departing midrib at 40°-45° angle, weakly arched to collective vein; the collective vein arising from the base or one of the lowermost primary lateral veins, 1-4 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE shorter than leaves; peduncle 29-32 cm long; spathe lanceolate-ovate, green, 5-7.7 cm long, 2-2.6 cm wide, clasping at base; spadix creamy white, oblong to clavate, 4.5-6 cm long, 0.8-1 cm diam. at base, 9 mm diam. at apex; 10-12 flowers visible in the principal spiral; tepals matte, longer than wide; stamens exserted, emerging in a somewhat irregular fashion in a complete sequence, the leading stamens 1-2 spirals ahead of the third and fourth; pollen yellow, faintly aromatic at anthesis. INFRUCTESCENCE with spadix to 13 cm long; 1.5-1.7 cm diam.; berries bright red, obovoid, ca. 4.6-7 mm long, 4-5 mm wide; seeds 2, 2.7-2.9 mm long, 1.5-1.7 mm wide.