Anthurium fasciale Sodiro

Epiphytic or terrestrial; stem climbing, to 50 cm long, 1-3 cm diam.; roots moderately few, descending, drying 2 mm diam.; cataphylls subcoriaceous, lanceolate, 14-24 cm long, acute at apex, drying whitish, straw-colored, persisting as a reticulum of fibers. LEAVES mostly spreading; petioles 11-40(60) cm long, 5-11 mm diam., D-shaped, flattened or convex with an acute medial rib adaxially, the margins sharply raised, rounded abaxially; geniculum moderately thicker than petiole, 1-2 cm long; sheath 2-7 cm long; blades coriaceous, oblong-linear to broadly oblong, narrowly acute at apex, obtuse to shortly attenuate or narrowly acute at base, 47-120 cm long, 5-20 cm wide, broadest at or near the middle, the margins moderately to conspicuously undulate; upper surface weakly glossy to semiglossy, slightly quilted, dark green, lower surface semiglossy to glossy, slightly to moderately paler; both surfaces drying green to yellow-brown; midrib convexly raised, or sometimes acutely raised toward the apex above, paler than surface, acutely raised below; primary lateral veins 17-33 per side, departing midrib at 60-90° angle, slightly arcuate to the collective vein, convexly raised above, flat and darker than surface below, drying raised on both surfaces; interprimary veins almost as conspicuous as primary lateral veins; tertiary veins moderately obscure above, darker than surface below, raised above and below when dried; reticulate veins obscure; collective vein arising from the base, equally as prominent as interprimary veins, (1)2-7 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES erect-spreading; peduncle 8-40(62) cm long, 2-8 mm diam., 0.6- 2.3 x as long as petioles, terete; spathe reflexed, subcoriaceous, green, ovate to broadly oblong, ca. 6.5-12 cm long, 1.5-3 cm wide, broadest in the lower half, the acumen inrolled, 4-8 mm long, acute to narrowly acute at base; spadix dark red, cylindroid to slightly tapered, sessile or stipitate to 5 mm, erect, straight or slightly curved, 5.5-12 cm long, 5-10 mm diam.; flowers (dried) rhombic, 1.6-1.7 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, the sides jaggedly sigmoid to straight; 8-11 flowers visible in principal spiral, 5-8 in alternate spiral; tepals semiglossy, minutely papillate, lateral tepals 0.7- 0.8 mm wide, the inner margins erose, the outer margins 2-3-sided; pistils yellow-brown on drying, smooth, lacking raphide cells, rounded at apex, not at all protruding above the tepals; stigma linear, ca. 0.3 mm long; stamens emerging from near the middle, inclined over and obscuring pistil at anthesis, held against the pistil post anthesis; anthers 0.4-0.6 mm long, 0.4-0.5 mm wide; thecae obovoid- oblong, weakly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE erect to pendent; spathe persisting, green; spadix ca. (7.5)12-16 cm long, 1.5-2 cm diam.; berries red, obovoid, 7-8 mm long, 5 mm diam.; seeds 1-2 per berry, broadly oblong to rounded, flattened on one side, 4.4-5 mm long, 3-3.5 mm diam., 1.5-2 mm thick, with a transparent, gelatinous appendage at base and dark gelatinous appendage at apex.