Araceae
Anthurium maguirei A.D.Hawkes
SUMMARY
Description based on dried material only. Terrestrial or epiphytic; stem moderately elongate, horizontally creeping; internodes short, 0.8-1 cm diam.; roots moderately few, brownish, smooth, moderately slender and elongate, ca. 2-3 mm diam.; cataphylls broadly triangular, 1.5-3.5 cm long, acute at apex, reddish brown to dark brown, persisting intact. LEAVES with petioles 4.5-2 1 cm long, ca. 2-3 mm diam., apparently subterete or C-shaped, sharply and narrowly sulcate adaxially, rounded abaxially; geniculum slightly thicker than petiole, 0.3-0.7 cm long; blades coriaceous, oblong-ovate to broadly elliptic, obtuse at apex (the acumen apiculate), rounded (occasionally obtuse) at base, 9.5-16 cm long, 2.8-5.7 cm wide, broadest at or below the middle; both surfaces matte, yellowish brown; midrib apparently acutely raised above, convexly raised below; primary lateral veins 5-8 per side, departing midrib at 30-45° angle, arcuate, probably flat or weakly sunken above, raised below; interprimary veins almost as conspicuous as primary lateral veins; tertiary veins weakly raised below; collective vein arising from near the apex, sunken above, raised below, equally as prominent as primary lateral veins, 2-6 mm from margin. INFLORESCENCES longer than leaves; peduncle 22-26.5 cm long, ca. 2-3 mm diam., 3.1-5.5x as long as petiole, terete; spathe probably spreading or reflexed, subcoriaceous, green, lanceolate, 3-4 cm long, 0.6-0.8 cm wide, broadest near the base, acuminate at apex (the acumen inrolled, 1-2 mm long), acute at base; stipe 2-2.2 cm long in front, 1.7-1.8 cm long in back; spadix green, cylindroid, 4.3-4.5 cm long, 4 mm diam.; flowers square, 2-2.4 mm in both directions, the sides straight to smoothly sigmoid; 5-6 flowers visible in principal spiral, 3-4 in alternate spiral; tepals apparently smooth; lateral tepals 1.2-1.5 mm wide, the inner margins straight, the outer margins 2-sided; pistils exposed; stigma linear, 0.2- 0.3 mm long; anthers 0.4 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, inclined over and obscuring the pistil; thecae oblong- ovoid, slightly divaricate. INFRUCTESCENCE not seen.