Anthurium ernestii var. oellgaardii Croat

Description based on dried material only. Epiphytic; stem 1-1.5 cm thick; roots dense, whitish or brownish, velutinous, moderately short, 1-3 mm diam.; cataphylls subcoriaceous, lanceolate, unribbed, 5-8 cm long, acuminate at apex, tan, persisting as reticulum of fine and dilacerated fibers. LEAVES erect-spreading; petioles 7-15 cm long, 3-6 mm diam., D-shaped, sulcate with a prominent medial rib and erect margins adaxially, 3-5-ribbed abaxially; geniculum thicker than petiole, 0.5-1 cm long; sheath 3-5.5 cm long; blades subcoriaceous, obovate to oblanceolate-elliptic, short-acuminate at apex, gradually attenuate toward the base, acute to obtuse at base, 54-87(100) cm long, 18-34 cm wide, broadest above the middle, the margins broadly undulate; midrib acutely raised above, obtusely raised and faintly reddish below; primary lateral veins 10-16 per side, departing midrib at 30-50° angle, straight to arcuate-ascending to the margin, prominently raised above, less so below; tertiary veins raised, prominulous; collective vein arising in the upper ? of the blade, raised above and below, prominulous, 2-10 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES spreading-pendent; peduncle 23-54 cm long, 3-9 mm diam., 2.2- 4.5(5.9) x as long as petiole, terete; spathe reflexed, subcoriaceous, greenish, sometimes tinged with violet-purple, oblong-oblanceolate, 5-30 cm long, 0.9-3.5 cm wide, inserted at 40-70° angle on peduncle, acuminate at apex, acute at base; stipe 5-20 mm long in front, 1-10 mm long in back; spadix purple, cylindroid, slightly tapered, curved, erect, 7-8 cm long, 4 mm diam. near base, 3 mm diam. near apex; flowers 4-lobed, 1.2- 1.5 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, the sides sigmoid; 5-6 flowers visible in principal spiral, 10-12 in alternate spiral; tepals minutely papilate, pale-punctate; lateral tepals 0.8 mm wide, the inner margins rounded, weakly scarious, minutely erose, the outer margins straight to rounded, 2-sided, paler; stigma oblong-ellipsoid, 0.3-0.7 mm long, 0.1-0.3 mm wide; anthers 0.5 mm long, 0.5 mm wide; thecae oblong-ellipsoid, slightly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE pendent; spathe persisting; spadix 7-60 cm long, 0.7-3 cm diam.; berries dark violet-purple in upper ? becoming whitish toward the base, subglobose to cylindroid, 5-10 mm long, 3- 4 mm diam.; pericarp with white raphide cells; seeds 2.8-4 mm long, 1.5-1.9 mm wide, 1.0- 1.2 mm thick, with a gelatinous, transparent appendage at both ends.