Araceae
Anthurium fontoides R.E.Schult.
SUMMARY
Epiphytic herb, small, graceful. LEAF coriaceous, petiole straight, thick and terete, sulcate, somewhat dilated at the base, up to 2 cm long, 1.5 - 2 mm in diameter. Leaf blade pale green, glabrous, linear-lanceolate, very long-acuminate at the apex, long-cuneate and decurrent at the base, slightly revolute at the margin, abaxially minutely tessellate-squamulose, 18 - 26 cm long, 1.2 - 1.4 cm wide, veins thick, prominent on both surfaces with two secondary veins parallel to the midrib. INFLORESCENCE short, slender, with the peduncle up to 6 cm long, slightly flattened. Spathe firmly membranaceous, linear-lanceolate, acute at the apex, up to 3 cm long, 2 mm wide, reflexed in life, as seen red or purple. Spadix sessile, cylindric, not attenuate towards apex, 6 - 7 cm long, more-or-less 3 mm in diameter, probably yellow.