Anthurium interruptum (Araceae)
Scandent epiphyte; stems elongate with 1 or more short internodes alternating with a long internode, 8-33 cm long, appearing to have several leaves at each node, often with a short, leafy, branch with several short internodes at these nodes; rooting profusely at each node; cataphylls 3-4.5 cm long, drying brown, dilacerating and ultimately deciduous. LEAVES spreading; petioles ± terete, 1.8-13 cm long; blades lanceolate to elliptic, oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate, subcoriaceous, 5-21 cm long, 2.2-9.5 cm wide, acuminate at apex, acute to rounded at base, 5-21 cm long; the midrib raised above, flat to prominulous below; primary lateral veins 9-12 per side, departing midrib at 45°-55° angle, ± obscure above, usually obscure below; collective vein arising from the base, prominulous above, flat below, 4-6 mm from the margin. INFLORESCENCE erect-spreading; peduncle 4.5-14 cm long, longer than petioles; spathe green, oblong-lanceolate, 3.7-5 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, acuminate at apex, acute at base; spadix green, becoming brownish-purple, 2.5-4 cm long; flowers 4-lobed, ca. 3 mm in both directions, the sides sigmoid; ca. 3 flowers visible in either spiral; pistils emergent, green, mammilliform; stamens held above tepals; anthers about as long as broad, less than 1 mm long; pollen pale yellow. INFRUCTESCENCE spreading-pendent; spadix to 12 cm long; berries red, broadly obovoid, ca. 7 mm long, flattened at apex with central depression.
Belize, Guatemala , Costa Rica to Peru and Amazonas in Venezuela. In Costa Rica the species is known on the Atlantic slope from northwestern Alajuela to southeastern Cartago Province. In Panama it is known from both the Atlantic and Pacific slopes.
In Costa Rica and Panama it is known from premontane wet, tropical wet, premontane rain, and lower montane rain forest.