Anthurium ernestii var. ernestii

Epiphytic; stem 6-20 cm long, 1-3 cm diam.; roots dense, green, whitish when dried, velutinous, 2-5 mm diam.; cataphylls subcoriaceous, 2-ribbed, 3-12 cm long, acuminate at apex, drying reddish brown to light brown (B & K yellow-red 4/10), persisting intact, eventually as reticulum of fine, straw-colored fibers with the apex remaining intact. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 4-30 cm long, 3- 13 mm diam., D-shaped, sulcate and with a medial rib adaxially, the margins acute, rounded to 1-5- ribbed abaxially; geniculum thicker and paler than petiole, 0.5-2.3 cm long; sheath 1.5-6 cm long; blades subcoriaceous, elliptic to oblanceolate to oblong- oblanceolate, acute to acuminate at apex (the acumen flat), attenuate to obtuse, rarely rounded at base, (25)40-60(131) cm long, (6)7-20(36) cm wide, broadest at or above the middle, the margins broadly undulate, frequently concave in the lower part of the blade; both surfaces matte to semiglossy, generally drying green; midrib broadly and acutely raised at base, becoming flat toward the apex above, acutely raised below with a prominent central ridge at base, becoming slightly convex at apex; primary lateral veins 6-15 per side, departing midrib at 30-70° angle, straight to arcuate-ascending to the margin, prominently raised near the midrib, flat to sunken near the margin above, prominently raised below, drying orangish; tertiary veins prominulous, raised on both surfaces; collective vein arising in the upper ? of the blade, 5-13 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES erect; peduncle 3-25(45) cm long, 2-6 mm diam., 0.5-3(5.7) x as long as petiole, pale green, terete; spathe erect to reflexed or recurled, subcoriaceous, green to green tinged with red at base (B & K yellow-green 6/7.5), lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 4-12 cm long, 1-3(4) cm wide, broadest near base or sometimes at or near middle, inserted at 45-80° angle on peduncle, abruptly acuminate to acute at apex, acute at base; spadix pinkish to magenta to purplish or green at anthesis, sessile, rarely stipitate to 0.5-1 cm, cylindroid, slightly tapered, erect, slightly curved, 3-1l(20) cm long, 3-14 mm diam.; flowers 4-lobed, 1-1.9 mm long, 1.4-1.7 mm wide, the sides sigmoid; 5-8(17) flowers visible in principal spiral, 7-1l(16) in alternate spiral; tepals matte, densely papillate; lateral tepals 0.4-1 mm wide, the inner margins straight to convex, the outer margins 2-3-sided; pistils raised, the exposed portion rectangular to squarish, often reddish violet, darker than tepals; stigmas slitlike to ellipsoid, 0.2-0.6 mm long; stamens emerging in a regular sequence, the laterals preceding the alternates by up to 27 spirals, the 3rd stamen preceding the 4th by up to 25 spirals; filaments ca. 0.6 mm long, 0.8 mm wide; anthers purplish or pinkish to pinkish white, 0.2-0.7 mm long, 0.4-0.6 mm wide, inclined over and obscuring the pistil; thecae ellipsoid, not divaricate; pollen pale yellow fading to white. INFRUCTESCENCE spreading; spathe withered; berries red-violet to violet (B & K purple 3/10-4/l0), subglobose to obovoid, rounded at apex, 4-10 mm long, 3-6 mm diam.; seeds 1-2 per berry, obovoid, 2-4 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm diam., creamy brown, with sticky appendage at apex; mesocarp grayish, juicy, somewhat mealy.