Araceae
Anthurium boekei Croat
Nomenclature
SUMMARY
Scandent epiphyte or hemi-epiphyte; internodes dark brown, 4 – 15 cm long, 6 – 7 mm diam.; cataphylls persisting intact or semi-intact at upper nodes, 3 – 4 cm long. Leaves with petiole sulcate adaxially, 2 – 9 cm long (averaging 3.2 cm), drying to 1.5 – 3.5 mm diam.; blade broadly ovate, sometimes ovate-elliptic, coriaceous, semiglossy, moderately bicolorous, drying to light brown and semiglossy above, paler and matte to weakly glossy below, 8 – 14 cm long (averaging 12 cm), 4.5 – 10 cm wide (averaging 7 cm), 1.5 – 2.6 × longer than wide, rounded to emarginate at apex, often with a short apiculum; petiole/blade ratio 1.9 – 6.5 (averaging 1.8); midrib convex on both sides, paler below; primary lateral veins 8 – 10 per side, collective veins more or less equally sunken above, raised weakly below; basal veins two per side, both forming collective veins, one at or near the blade margin, one 0.5 – 1 cm from margin, at times innermost collective vein arising from lowermost primary lateral vein; upper surface sparsely glandular-punctate, glands black, c. 0.02 mm diam.; lower surface densely glandular-punctate, glands reddish brown, c. 0.15 mm diam. Inflorescence with peduncle 5 – 10 cm long, 1 – 2 mm diam.; spathe green, reflexed; spadix 2 – 7 cm long, green at anthesis, becoming purplish after anthesis; old pollen yellowish.