Anthurium fatoense K.Krause

Epiphytic; stem 10-60 cm long, 1-2 cm diam.; leaf scars obscured by root mass; roots dense, ascending to descending, numerous, pale green to white, smooth to very pubescent, short to elongate, usually tapered, 1-4 mm diam.; cataphylls subcoriaceous to coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, 5-14.5 cm long, acute at apex with a subapical apiculum, pale yellow-green, sometimes tinged with red, drying medium brown, persisting semi-intact, soon deciduous. LEAVES erect to spreading; petioles 2.5-9.5 cm long, 5-8 mm diam., sharply quadrangular to angularly D-shaped to occasionally subterete, flattened to broadly sulcate adaxially, sharply 1-3-ribbed or sometimes rounded abaxially, the surface minutely pale-speckled; geniculum paler and thicker than petiole, 0.7-l(2) cm long; blades subcoriaceous, oblong-oblanceolate to oblanceolate to oblong-ovate, long-acuminate at apex, acute to obtuse to narrowly rounded at base, 24-83 cm long, 6-26 cm wide, broadest at or above the middle, the margins weakly and broadly undulate; upper surface matte to glossy, medium green, lower surface semiglossy to glossy, paler, drying greenish to greenish brown; midrib flat at base, becoming sharply and narrowly raised toward the apex above, raised and sharply 2-ribbed or prominently convex-raised at base below, becoming convex to flat toward the apex; primary lateral veins 8-16 per side, departing midrib at 40-50° angle, arcuate-ascending, narrowly raised above, less so and darker than surface below; interprimary veins less conspicuous than primary lateral veins; tertiary veins obscure above. darker than surface below; collective vein arising from near the apex or absent, 2-9 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE erect-spreading to arching-pendent, shorter than or equalling leaves; peduncle 14-48 cm long, 2-6(9)x as long as petioles, green to reddish, weakly striate, terete to subterete, faintly ribbed; spathe spreading to reflexed, subcoriaceous, light green, sometimes tinged with purple, narrowly lanceolate, 5.5-9(13.5) cm long, 0.7-1.3(2) cm wide, broadest near base, inserted at 45-90° angle on peduncle, long-acuminate at apex (the acumen inrolled), obtuse to subcordate at base; spadix green to green tinged with red to pale reddish to reddish violet or purplish, oblong-cylindroid to long-tapered, 5-15 cm long, 4-10 mm diam. near base, 2.5-4 mm diam. near apex; flowers rhombic to weakly 4-lobed, 1.4-2.8 mm long, 1.8-3 mm wide, the sides smooth to jaggedly sigmoid; 5-9 flowers visible in principal spiral, 5-12 in alternate spiral; tepals matte to weakly glossy, minutely and densely papillate and pale punctate; lateral tepals 1.2-1.5 mm wide, the inner margins straight to broadly convex, somewhat erose, the outer margins 2-4-sided; pistils prominently to weakly raised, weakly glossy, papillate, green to white; stigma 0.4-0.5 mm long, brushlike; stamens emerging in slow progression from the base in a complete sequence, the laterals preceding the alternates by 6-34 spirals, the 3rd stamen preceding the 4th by 1-12 spirals, arranged in a circle around pistil; filaments translucent, 0.5 mm long, 0.4 mm wide; anthers yellow to white, 0.5-0.6 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide; thecae broadly to oblong-ovoid, not divaricate; pollen yellow fading to white, sweet-scented. INFRUCTESCENCE spreading; spadix to 26 cm long, with berries scattered throughout; berries cream to greenish yellow or pale orange, oblong-ovoid to ovoid-ellipsoid, acute at apex, 4-7.8 mm long, 3.3-4.2 mm diam.; pericarp thickened; seeds 2 per berry, pale yellow with numerous pale, granular raphide cells on the surface, oblong-ovoid, slightly or not at all flattened, 2.6-3 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm diam., 1-1.3 mm thick, with a transparent, gelatinous, sticky appendage.