Anthurium longispadiceum K.Krause

Appressed epiphyte; stems short; internodes short, ca. 1 cm diam.; cataphylls to 10 cm long, 1.5 cm wide, broadest at base, acute at apex, drying brown and papery, soon deciduous. LEAVES spreading; petioles erect, 10-25 cm long, to 5 mm diam., thickest near base, terete; sheath inconspicuous; geniculum 1.5-2.0 cm long, infrequently drying darker than petiole, otherwise inconspicuous; blades narrowly oblong-oblanceolate or rarely narrowly oblong-ovate, 1-3 times longer than petiole, moderately coriaceous, 23-36 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, 3.5-8.5 times longer than wide, usually broadest above middle, or rarely broadest below middle, drying grayish above, brownish below, short to long-acuminate at apex (acumen 1-3 cm), obtuse at base; midrib convexly raised, nearly as prominent above as below; primary lateral veins 17-25 (occasionally fewer) pairs per side, departing midrib at 20-30° angle, slightly less prominent than collective vein; collective vein arising from 2nd or 3rd primary lateral veins, 2-5 (10) mm from margin. INFLORESCENCE erect; peduncle 16-32 cm long, terete; spathe green, narrowly lanceolate, 8- 10 cm long, 1-1.5 cm wide, widest at base, reflexed, inserted at 70-80° angle, margins meeting narrowly acute, stipe 5 mm long (to 1 cm long in fruit); spadix green at anthesis, 12.5-25 cm long, 4 mm diam., widest at base; flowers square to narrowly rhombic, 4 in principal spiral, 2.5 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm wide, sides straight; tepals 1.5 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, inner margins rounded, outer margins 2 sided. INFRUCTESCENCE to 40 cm long, 2.5 cm diam., ± pendent; berries ± tapered and pointed as they emerge, maturing red.