Anthurium microspadix Schott

Terrestrial or epiphytic; internodes 1.5-4 cm long, 5-7 mm diam., pale green, weakly glossy; cataphylls persisting intact at upper nodes, soon weathering and deciduous except for some fibers at the base, 2-3 cm long, drying brown; petioles 7-9 cm long (averaging 8.2 cm), 1-3 mm diam., erect-spreading, C-shaped, weakly 3-ribbed adaxially, ca. 2/3 as long as the blades; blades elliptic, narrowly acuminate at apex, rounded at base, 14-19 cm long, 6.5-8 cm wide (averaging 16.7 x 7.3 cm), 2.1-2.5 times longer than broad, 2.0-2.5 times longer than the petioles, broadest at or near middle, subcoriaceous, minutely bullate; upper surface dark green and weakly glossy, lower surface moderately paler and matte; midrib narrowly and weakly raised in deep valleys above, round-raised and paler below; primary lateral veins 11-14 per side, departing midrib at ca. 45° angles, ascending to collective vein, deeply sunken above, round-raised and paler below; tertiary veins prominently sunken above, moderately raised below; collective vein arising from near the base, 5-7 mm from margin; INFLORESCENCES erect, shorter than the leaves; spathe reflexed-spreading, green tinged with purple, curved downward along margins; spadix pale green, semiglossy, ca. 5 cm long, 6 mm diam., scarcely tapered to the apex; pistils weakly emergent. INFRUCTESCENCES with immature berries green.