Anthurium pescadilloense Croat

Epiphyte; stems elongate, internodes 5-9 cm long, drying to 8 mm diam., terete; cataphylls persisting relatively tightly appressed along entire stem, drying to fine network of light brownish fibers, 4-5 cm long; petioles 6.5-8 cm long, drying to ca. 3 mm diam., 3-ribbed, narrowly sulcate adaxially; blades ovate, 20-21 cm long, 11-12 cm wide, approximately 2 times longer than wide, 2.5-3 times longer than petioles, acuminate at apex, rounded at base, drying with the surface wrinkled, medium gray and matte above, medium greenish gray and matte below, minutely and irregularly ridged below with blackened glandular punctuations on both surfaces, these sparse but large and prominent on upper surface and small and dense below, the margin revolute; midrib raised, drying somewhat darker than surface and acute above; primary lateral veins 5-7; secondary veins almost as prominent as primary veins; basal veins 2, free to base; collective veins normally arising from the uppermost basal veins, on occasion from the lowest primary lateral veins; INFLORESCENCE spathe green; spadix cream-colored, slightly tapered, 5 cm long and .5 cm diam., pistils early-emergent; styles broadly elliptical with the stigma deeply sunken, ellipsoid with a pale margin; flowers 6-7 visible per spiral, 2.5-2.6 mm long, 2.4-2.7 mm wide; lateral tepals outer margin 2-sided; stamens scarcely emergent then retracted under tepal; anthers 5 mm long, 6 mm wide, the thecae narrowly ovoid and slightly divaricate.