Anthurium josei Croat

Epiphytic herb to 30 cm; stem short, subterete, drying brown; internodes very short, 5-7 mm diam.; roots dense, 1-2 mm diam.; cataphylls to 6 cm, acicular at apex, drying grayish green, soon weathering to fibers and only ca. 1 cm of the base of the fibers persisting, stramineous, thin. LEAVES erect to spreading; petioles 8.3-17.8 cm, 1-2 mm diam., semi-erect, terete, narrowly sulcate, drying medium gray-green; sheath 0.8 cm; geniculum 0.8-1.3 cm; blades 14.1-21.4 x 3.1-4.2 cm, 5.1 x longer than wide, 1.4-1.6 x longer than petioles, narrowly oblanceolate with short and narrow closely aligned posterior lobes and narrow sinus, broadest in the distal 1/3, gradually acuminate at apex, subcoriaceous, drying matte, grayish green on adaxial surface, grayish yellow-green on abaxial surface; posterior lobes 1.4 2.4 x 1.1-1.8 cm, directed toward the base, slightly longer than broad, broadly rounded to narrowly rounded at apex; sinus 8-20 mm deep, very narrow to closed with posterior lobes weakly overlapping; midrib weakly raised adaxially, drying paler than surface and weakly 3-ribbed near the base, promi nently raised and paler abaxially, drying weakly and irregularly ribbed; primary lateral veins 5 to 8 pairs, straight, arising at 20°-40° angle; interprimary veins present; basal veins 4-5 pairs, the 1st pair free to the base, the 2nd pair almost free, the 3rd and 4th weakly fused into a posterior rib 3-7 mm; posterior rib not naked along the sinus; collective veins arising from the 1st pair of basal veins; tertiary veins prominulous abaxially, the surface somewhat granular on high magnification on drying. INFLORESCENCE erect; peduncle ca. 7.5 cm, drying like petioles, ca. 2 mm diam.; spathe erect-spreading, subcoriaceous, narrowly lanceolate, acute to apex, ca. 4 x 0.8 cm, greenish yellow; spadix ca. 6 cm, ca. 0.3 cm diam., cylindric, green; stipe to 2.9 cm, drying ca. 1 mm diam. Flowers square, sides straight, ca. 1 x 1 mm; 4 flowers visible in the principal spiral, 5 flowers visible in the alternate spiral; tepals 3-sided, inner margins broadly convex; stigmas slit-like; thecae slightly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE not seen.