Anthurium guanchezii G.S.Bunting

Terrestrial; internodes short, drying 2.5 cm diam.; cataphylls persisting semi-intact. LEAVES; petioles 30 cm long, sheathing 1.7 cm at the base, cross-sectional shape not known; geniculum 0.8-1 cm long, remote from the blade base by 4.5 cm; blades pergamentaceous to subcoriaceous, broadly ovate, gradually acuminate at apex (the acumen 25 mm long), weakly cordate at base, 33.5 cm long, 22.5 cm wide; sinus 1.8 cm deep; the lower surface brown-punctate; the lower naked portion of midrib subterete and narrowly sulcate; posterior rib naked 1.5-2 cm; primary lateral veins ca. 8 per side, slender, departing midrib at ca. 40° angle, the lower 2-3 pairs at broader angle, arcuate-ascending to the margin; collective vein lacking or arising only in the upper fourth of the blade. INFLORESCENCES slightly longer than leaves; peduncle 58 cm long; spathe reflexed-recurved, narrowly ovate, 9 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, acuminate at apex, decurrent 1.2 cm at base; stipe 1.7 cm long in front, 4 mm long in back; spadix weakly tapered, 8.2 cm long (apex missing), 7 mm diam. at anthesis, to 1.1 cm diam. in pre-fruiting condition. INFRUCTESCENCE not known.