Anthurium cotejense Croat

Terrestrial plant; caudex elongated, rooting at the nodes; internodes 1–3.5 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm diam.; cataphylls to 7 cm long, reddish brown, persistent intact. Leaves with petiole green, terete, 13–34 cm long, 4–5 mm diam.; geniculum c. 8 mm long, darker than petiole; blade ovate-elliptic,  long-acuminate at apex, attenuate at base, 18– 31 cm long, 9–15 cm wide, averaging 24.5 × 11.5 cm, 1.6–2.7 × longer than wide, 0.7–1.9 × as long as petiole, subcoriaceous, dark reddish green and semiglossy above, light green and semiglossy below, lacking glandular punctuations on both surfaces; midrib narrowly raised and slightly paler above, prominently round-raised and much paler below; primary lateral veins 10–14 pairs, arising at 45–55° angle, flat above, raised below, concolorous with midrib; collective veins generally arising from the 2nd pair of primary lateral veins, 3–10 mm from margin, concolorous with midrib. Inflorescences erect; peduncle terete, much thinner than petioles, 20–29 cm long, c. 2 mm diam.; spathe membranaceous, linear-lanceolate and acuminate, clasping the base of the stipe, 4–5.5 cm long, 0.6–1.1 cm wide, purplish; spadix stipitate for 2–3 mm, cylindrical and slender, 2–5 cm long, 2–4 mm diam., purplish. Flowers 1.4–1.6 mm long, 1.4–1.5 mm wide, 4–5 visible per spiral; tepals moderately glossy, minutely papillate with a few thick cellular inclusions, lateral tepals 1–1.1 mm wide, outer margins broadly 2-sided, inner margins broadly rounded; stamens held at level of tepals, 0.7 mm long and wide, thecae broadly divaricate.