Anthurium fendleri Schott

Epilithic, epiphytic or terrestrial, on steep rocky banks; stem to 15 cm long, 1-3 cm diam.; roots moderately numerous, descending, greenish to brownish, densely pubescent, moderately elongate, tapered, 2-5 mm diam.; cataphylls moderately thin, broadly lanceolate, 5-10 cm long, acute with subapical apiculum at apex, yellowish red, heavily pale-speckled, drying brown, persisting semi-intact to fibrous, eventually deciduous. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles (2)4-47 cm long, 5-8 mm diam., D-shaped to subtriangular, narrowly to broadly sulcate adaxially, the margins sharply to bluntly raised, rounded to 1-5-ribbed abaxially, the surface medium green, pale-speckled; geniculum thicker and paler than petiole, becoming fissured transversely with age, (0.5)l-2.5 cm long; blades chartaceous to subcoriaceous, oblanceolate to broadly elliptic, gradually acuminate at apex, usually rounded or shallowly cordate, sometimes acute to obtuse at base, (15)30-81 cm long, (6)l0-34 cm wide, broadest just above the middle, the margins broadly undulate; upper surface semiglossy, dark to medium green, lower surface weakly glossy to semiglossy, slightly paler; midrib flat at base, becoming convexly raised toward the apex above, slightly paler than surface, prominently higher than broad and acutely angular at base below, becoming convexly raised toward the apex; primary lateral veins 8-12 per side, arcuate-ascending, the lowermost free to the margin, loop-connecting to the collective vein in apical third, convexly raised, sometimes sunken in grooves above, prominently convex below; tertiary veins sunken above, raised and darker than surface below; reticulate veins obscure above, weakly visible below; collective vein arising from about the middle of the blade, sunken above, raised below, slightly less prominent than primary lateral veins, 4-12 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES spreading or stiffly erect; peduncle 30-79.5 cm long, 1.6-3.8 x as long as petiole, terete or weakly to prominently ribbed abaxially, sometimes also adaxially; spathe spreading and recurving or loosely coiled, caducous, thin, soon drying and weathering, green or green tinged with violet-purple (B & K purple 5/ l0), linear-lanceolate to narrowly triangular, 5.5-11.5 cm long, 0.9-2 cm wide, broadest near the base, inserted at 60-80° angle on peduncle, narrowly acuminate at apex, acute at base, the margins meeting at 40-50° angle; stipe green, 6-18 mm long; spadix maroon (B & K red-purple 2/10), long-tapered, 7.5-21 cm long, 4-7 mm diam. near base, 2.5-4 mm diam. near apex; flowers square to rhombic, 2.5-3 mm in both directions, the sides smoothly to jaggedly sigmoid; 4-8 flowers visible in principal spiral, 5-10 in alternate spiral; tepals matte, weakly punctate, densely and minutely papillate; lateral tepals 1.3- 1.8 mm wide, the inner margins broadly convex, the outer margins 2-3-sided; pistils early emergent, 0.1-0.2 mm, green becoming violet-purple, sometimes green with violet-purple splotches; stigma ellipsoid, light purple-violet, 0.6 mm long, dry and full of slightly exserted bristles at anthesis, becoming dark and caviform, droplets conspicuous, appearing 2-4 days before stamens emerge; stamens emerging in a slow progression from the base, the laterals preceding the alternates by 3-5 spirals, the 3rd stamen preceding the 4th by 1-3 spirals, held just above tepals; anthers creamy to yellow, 0.4-0.5 mm long, 0.8-0.9 mm wide; thecae ovoid, not divaricate; pollen bright to pale yellow, soon fading to white. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent; berries violet-purple, obovoid, rounded at apex, 6.7-7 mm long; mesocarp thick, gelatinous, white; seeds 1- 2 per berry, purplish, 4.5-5 mm long, 2-3.5 mm diam., 0.7-2 mm thick.